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? Each recurring Fourth of July finds a grateful republic doing fit lionor to the memory of Thomas Jef ferson, author of the Declaration of Independence. And each successive ?holiday finds our public speakers and school teachers, toast masters and orators of the day extolling not mere ly the authorship of the declaration "but other varied accomplishments of out most versatile statesman. He is praised as a President of the United States, as the founder of a great po litical party, as a diplomatist who aided in winning foreign sympathy for the young republic, as a champion of religions liberty and as the founder of the University of Vlr - ginia?a truly model seat ot learn ing. Yet with singular unanimity these Fourth of July orators overlook one of Jefferson's most notable? accom plishments and one In which he took perhaps greater pride than in any other. In consequence cf this over-' . sight there are probably few persons who, lest they have had opportunity careful study of his biography, are aware that Thomas Jefferson was an architect. Not merely a theoretical architect, mind you, but a practical exponent of the profession, who dem onstrated by actual achievement that he posessed no mean ability in thib sphere. Architecture was not a mere hobby with Thomas Jefferson in the Bense that golf is the hobby of the present occupant of the white. House or that xatmral history, in one form or an cther was with hie strenuous prede cessor. On the contrary he applied idmself to the art seriously and turned the results of this application to practical account. It would seem as though , there must have been come thing in the air during the pe riod when Jefferson lived, that turned men's minds to architecture as a field of endeavor. A number of the leaders of the period, particularly in the State of Virginia, "(Mother of 'Presidents," dabbled in architecture, although none of them attained Jef ferson's eminence in the pursuit as judged by the evidence which has come down to the present generation. Izcello George Washington, himself,, al though the fact has not been exploit ed as has been his work as a survey, or, was an architect of no mean abil ity and several of the historic homes of the Washington family and its connections were constructed wholly or in part from his designs, either during the life time %of our first Pres ident or after his death. Not only was Jefferson a practical architect, but buildings were erected in accordance with hia plans,4?in many instances under his personal su pervision and direction,?and a num ber of these buildings stand today as man who was responsible for their creation. If we may digress a mo ment it may be noted that this pres ervation of the fruits of Jefferson's architectural genius is the more wel come because of other rr.onuments to the author of the declaration of In dependence the country has all too few. Even the monument over his grave, located on the wooded hillside in Virginia that he loved so well is a simple shaft. This was in accord wJth nis wlrhes and bare again his I architectural instinct manifested it self for Jefferson himself gave explicit I instructions as to the type of memori al to be reared over his last resting place and composed himself the in scription which was chiseled thereon. From an architectural standpoint the"most notable products of Jeffer son's skill as an architect ar.e located i in the highlands of Albemarle, that picturesque section of old Virginia in and around the quaint little city of Charlottesville? a favored region which held In the affections of j our third President the place that I (Mount Vernon ocupied In the heart of j George Washington. Here is located | Montlcelio, the stately and beautiful residence which Jefferson designed for himself and which happily en dures today, aparently in the same state of preservation that it was when its original owner closed his eyes up on it?then as now, an ideal example of an American country s?at. Here also are located the splendid classical buildings of the University of Vir ginia, of which Jefferson was the real founder and the first head, and for which institution he not only design ed the buildings but evolved every de tail of the axangernents of the grounds But Jefferson's home county in the Old Dominion has by no means a monopoly of the heritage of architec tural wealth which he left to the na tion whose early pilot he was. He left this impress of his ddeas In our Capitol Building at Washington?ad mittedly the most dmposing govern mental structure of its'kind in the world; he helped plan the capital city, the symmetrical arangement of whose streets and avenues has served as a model for the world's newer seats of government such as those of Canada and Australia; and mos* in teresting, of all, perhaps, his archi tectural influence is manifest in the plan of the White House which, as restored during the Roosevelt admin istration In acordance with the orig inal drawings givea conspicuous place to features such as the terraces which are plainly "borrowed" from the Jef fersonlan masterpiece, Monticello. In most of his architectural work Jefferson leaned most pronouncedly to the classical. Some of the buildings which he designed for his particular hobby?the University of Virginia, are in effect all but copies of famous Grecian structures. This tendency evidences the fact that in his allegi ance to architecture, as in all else, Jefferson wai3 a deep student. Pos sibly too, Jefferson's travels in Eu rope and his residence In France as a comis8ioner of the new Republic of the Western Hemisphere may have helped to mould his architectural ideals in this direction. And yet it J may be of Interest to struggling young architects and others that the author of the Declaration of Inde pendence never believed in the idea of Americans going to Europe for an education. He once wrote: "It ap pears to rr,e that nn American coming to Europe for an education loses in his knowledge, in his morals, in his health, in his habits and in his hap piness." Jefferson's love of the classics manifested Itself when he was quite a young boy. He repeatedly declared that if he were left to decide between the pleasure derived from the classi cal education which his farther had given him and the large estate which he inherited he would have decided in favor of the former. When In col lege, which course he began at the age of seventeen, he read the most difficult Latin and Greek authors with facility. As a young man he be gan the study of architecture both practically and as a science, divid ing his leisnre between this pursuit and his beloved violin. It was by no means strange that Jefferson's best architectural talent should have been called up in design ing Monticello, for in the role of a lover-husband fashioned it as the ideal abode for himself and the beau tiful and wealthy bride whom he had married at the age of twenty-nine, Jefferson alike to Geoige Washington r ? Of Vjf>fr/2Z<2_ married a widow of means, although | he was himself very wealthy by inher-1 itance, having before marriage an in come of about $5,000 a year? an im- I mense sum in those days. Jefferson at the time of his marriage was thej owner of an estate of 5,000 acres and ihis wife brought to him as her dowry 'no less than 40,000 acres, eo that [ with such a baronial estate it was I indeed fitting that he should de sign an imposing manor house to I occupy Little Mountain, the swell of land on the estate which was chosen as a site and which commanded a magnificent view of a panorama that embraced woodland and pasture. Jefferson had chosen the site for his home while yet a student, so that he had years of thought to give to the manor house which he ultimately designed and erected on the ten acre tract crowning the 600-foot hill which had long since caught his fancy. The boor plan which he evolved is sugges tive of a gigantic letter E with the wings opening westward. To the north and south were placed the walkB or promenades, supported by masonry structures containing ser vants' quarters and storage rooms and it is these "terraces" or colon ades which we see duplicated in the restored Presidential Mansion at Washington. The exterior of Monti cello Mansion is in the Doric order of Roman architecture, hut the inter ior is in the Ionic style, the mosf im pressive feature of the interior being the great hall, thirty feet square, which extends to the full height of the building with a music gallery un der the ceiling. Although no one can question the ability of Jefferson as an architect, it makes us shudder to think what would have happened had he been confronted by modern conditions when dwellings are "run up" in a few weeks or a few months at most The mansion at Monticello was under construction for S2 years. Work was commenced in 1770, two years be fore Jefferson was married, and it dragged along, with freQ .ent changes in the plans, until 1802, when Jeffer son was President of the United States. However if Jefferson was a slow-going architect, no person car. say that he was an economical one for according to the account books which the architect-builder 1 apt with that rr '.hodlc care for which he was famous, the house Involved an actual monetary outlay of only $7,200. Of course, the work was done by slaves and most of the material was obtain ed on the estate. Bricks were made on the site by the slaves (of which Jefferson had several hundred, al though he was always opposed to slavery and made attempts to abolish it) and the Sage of Monticello even established on the estate a nail-fac tory where every nail used in the con struction of the building was forged. Next to Monticello the classic buildings of the University of Vir ginia represent the most interesting and most important achievements of Thomas Jefferson, architect. The forerunner of the University of Vir ginia, which was, by the way, the first university established in the New World, was authorized by the State Legislature of Virginia in 1803, the year following the completion of MonticeBlo. Howeveir no headway was made with the project until March, 1814, when Jefferson, the real head and founder of the Institution In Its ultimate form, was elected to *he board of directors. Jefferson threw himself into the project heart and soul. He designed the first building and laid its corner stone and later formulated the whole architectural scheme of the university which is one of the most beautiful In the United States and probably in the whole world. Jefferson'o plan for the educational system of the university was, from the outset, an elastic one that would permit expan sion in accordance with the advance of thought and the extension of knowledge and so likewise the archi tectural plan which he formulated for "the child of his old age" as the university has been called, was like wise designed to provide an arrange ment and grouping of buildings, the symmetry of which would not be ar fected by any additions that would have to be made in later yearn. The scheme has worked out just as he foresaw and the newer buildiags are in perfect harmony with those de signed by Jeiferson. , ? In hi3 preparation of designs for the university buildings. Jefferson re ceived much of his inspiration from the historic designs of PaUa?lo and in his adaption of these be proved himself an artist as well as an arehi tect. The arrangement on the .build ings has been compared to that of an old Italian monastery. The origins! group, planned and built under Jef ferson's personal supervision, consists of four-parallel rows of structures and at one end stands the Pantheon like rotunda. Many of the buildings are replicas of historic buildings of ancient times. The students' quar ters on each side of the quadrangle are reproductions of Roman villas and are so designed that each stu dent has a separate outside entrance to his room. The replica of the Pantheon, above mentioned, is about one-third tile size of its Grecian model. It is used as a library and Iff the rotnnda are many interesting relics of Jefferson, including communications writttent during the clewing years of his life, and which attest,?a*s for Instance, by the setting down of specifications as to the dimensions of the monu ment to be erected over his grave,?? that the architectural bent was strong in this remarkable man. up to tho very last dJ-ys of his life. 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