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Federal Period Architecture 1785-1830. Early American Classicism. Thomas Jefferson and the French Influence.
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Federal Period Architecture 1785-1830
Early American Classicism Thomas Jefferson and the French Influence
"How is a taste in this beautiful art to be formed in our countrymen, unless we avail ourselves of every occasion when public buildings are to be erected, of presenting to them models for their study and imitation?...You see, I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile them to the rest of the world, and procure them its praise." - Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, VA, 1785-8
** Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA, 1769-1784
** Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA, 1769-1784
** Thomas Jefferson, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1817-26
Robert Adam, Etruscan Room, Osterly Park, Middlesex, England, c. 1770s
**Charles Bullfinch, Harrison Gray Otis House (#1), Boston, MA, 1795-6
**Samuel McIntire, Gardner-Pingree House (Essex Institute), Salem, MA, 1810