Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
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<strong>Brick</strong>_<strong>Wood</strong>_<strong>Stone</strong>_<strong>Land</strong>_<strong>Water</strong>_<strong>Measurement</strong><br />
Latrobe suggested one variation from Jefferson’s plan that coincided with a change in the design that Jefferson<br />
himself had contemplated only since writing Latrobe in June, that <strong>of</strong> closing <strong>of</strong>f the north end <strong>of</strong> the square<br />
with some principal building. This alteration in Jefferson’s conception <strong>of</strong> his architectural scheme, and its<br />
subsequent change in the appearance <strong>of</strong> the square, Jefferson later told Latrobe, was necessary because <strong>of</strong><br />
the law <strong>of</strong> the ground.<br />
Operations at and for the College, 18 July 1817, ViU:TJ, and TJ to Latrobe, 3 August 1817, DLC:TJ; see also ibid., 900-901, 916, and Malone, Jefferson and His Times: The Sage <strong>of</strong> Monticello, 257-61.<br />
In his letter <strong>of</strong> 3 August Jefferson informed Latrobe that he would leave the north end <strong>of</strong> the square open in case the “state should establish there the <strong>University</strong> they contemplate, they may fill it up with<br />
something <strong>of</strong> the grand kind.”<br />
200 feet<br />
257 yards
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