HP-Newsletter-12 - University of Virginia

2011–2012
Historic Pr e s e rvation
This past summer, U.Va. Facilities Management workers braved brutal heat to conduct “probes” of the Rotunda roof.
Uncovering the Story of the Rotunda’s Roof
Summer “Probes” Provide New Information as U.Va. Mobilizes for Start of Major Restoration
R
ESTORING AN
architectural masterpiece
such as the Rotunda takes
patience, persistence and
painstaking attention to detail. It also
takes plain old hard work.
As temperatures soared to
the upper 90s and beyond in July
and August, University Facilities
Management crews undertook an
important early step in the Rotunda’s
much-anticipated restoration by
addressing years of water seepage in
the outer layers of the roof.
Braving the intense heat, workers
scaled the 80-foot scaffolding erected
on both the building’s north and south
sides and used a system of pulleys to
hoist up jackhammers, drills and other
tools to perform what David Neuman,
architect for the University, termed
“probes” of the Rotunda’s roof. The
A U.Va. Facilities
Management
worker ascends
the 80-foot
scaffolding
erected beside
the northeast
corner of the
Rotunda.
Inset—A worker
uses a saw to cut
into one of the
concrete steps
atop the Rotunda.
purpose of using the probes was to cut
through the layers on the dome’s roof
and conduct visual inspections and
nondestructive testing of the materials
under the surface sheet metal.
By cutting into the roof’s inner
layers — seen from the outside as
steps — workers uncovered layers of
mixed materials, including brick, tile
and concrete blocks, which sit atop
two layers of the Guastavino clay tile
structural system installed in the 1898
reconstruction. This fireproof, patented
system of terra-cotta tile is well suited for
supporting the dome’s shape and weight.
The probes also confirmed what
a 2007 Historic Structure Report
commissioned by the Office of the
Architect had first outlined — that
the metal outer covering of the roof
has reached the end of its useful life.
While assessments in 2010 suggested
the need for a complete replacement of
the entire roofing structure and steps,
the new findings from the probes
indicate that while a new outer cover
is, indeed, needed, the leakage and
related damage to the underlying roof
structure and the 1970s-installed steps
can be fully rectified by repairs.
Neuman added that the probes
represent the level of serious historical
and technical research necessary
for the University’s stewardship of
the Rotunda and its other historic
structures and landscapes. He and
others involved in the project believe
that there is compelling reason to
initiate the roof restoration as early
as possible in 2012. President Teresa
Sullivan agreed, emphasizing that the
University wants to work efficiently
as it undertakes the preservation
and restoration of one of Thomas
Jefferson’s — and U.Va.’s — most
enduring symbols.
What’s Next for the Rotunda Roof
• Drawings will be completed during winter 2011–12, with work to begin in March 2012
and conclude in the spring of 2013.
• The overall projected cost of the roof repair is $4.69 million, of which the
Commonwealth will provide $2.69 million. Previous gifts to the University for the
Rotunda will constitute the remaining $2 million.
• In addition to the substantial roof repairs, other pressing issues remain: the building’s
two porticos require extensive work, including replacement of the column capitals and
guttering system.
• The projected cost of the required initial work for the column capitals and guttering
system is $12.5 million; the University envisions that half of that amount will come
from private support and the other half from state funding.
For more information about the ongoing Rotunda renovation, please contact Alison Traub,
associate vice president for development, at 434-243-2249 or aet3a@virginia.edu.
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Historic Preservation at The University of Virginia
Inspired by History and Cultural Landscapes:
Shaun Duncan Speaks about Her Commitment to Historic Preservation At U.Va. and Beyond
Shaun S. Duncan is the co-chair of the Jefferson’s Circle
with her husband, R. Foster Duncan. Shaun recently
spoke with us about her involvement with historic
preservation and why she remains a devoted supporter of
preservation and conservation efforts, both at U.Va. and in
broader contexts.
Q: How did you initially become interested in the
preservation of historic structures and landscapes?
I was raised in New Orleans, and my
appreciation for preservation grew partly from
that experience. Living in a place with a distinctive
historic identity gives you an awareness of and
sensitivity to place and culture. Over time this
sensitivity becomes an innate part of you. Another
influence was the summers spent staying at a lake
in northern Ontario in an area with its own identity,
history, distinct topography and cultural values. Both
places — New Orleans and Canada — gave me a deep
appreciation of beauty, place and culture, which has
become a core part of who I am.
I am a lawyer by training, not a preservation
professional, but I have a “second career” in the
preservation field, and I feel both inspired and
energized by it. Through this work, I’ve become
interested in cultural landscapes and how education
is essential to our efforts to protect and learn from
these landscapes. Recently I learned that I was
chosen to be an honorary member of the American
Association of Landscape Architects. I was floored by
that recognition.
Q: Outside the University of Virginia, what projects or
organizations have you been involved with over the years?
For some time I have been involved with River
Fields, a conservation group based in Louisville,
Kentucky, that works to protect the scenic, historic
and cultural values of the land and water around
the Ohio River.* Through River Fields, I’ve gained a
greater understanding of the crucial importance of
protecting land and natural resources by means of
easements and planned conservation.
I’m also involved with the Cultural Landscape
Foundation,* a group that emphasizes landscapes
rather than buildings and promotes stewardship
through education. Working with the foundation led
to my awakening about the interplay of the natural,
the scenic and man’s work on the land. This interplay
is an expression of our cultural values and a part of
our national heritage. On the foundation website,
we have a section called What’s Out There. It’s a
database of information gathered by historians and
researchers that’s designed to raise public awareness
of the rich diversity and interconnectedness of our
shared designed landscape heritage. We also have
held What’s Out There weekends in D.C., Chicago
and San Francisco, offering free guided tours of the
unique landscape legacy of those cities.
Q: Are there any specific approaches or trends in the
field of historic preservation that interest you?
I’m interested in the variety of opportunities
we have to view buildings and landscapes as part
of a systems-based approach to preservation and
conservation. By that, I mean the interplay of
the natural and the cultural in the structures and
spaces that express our history and heritage. With
any preservation project, I emphasize the need for
informed decision making, and that comes from
taking a research-based approach.
Q: We are at a pivotal moment in the University’s
ongoing stewardship of its historic structures and
landscapes. U.Va. is beginning its first major restoration of
the Rotunda in almost 40 years, and the restoration projects
of other Lawn properties have been completed or are in
process. What particular project or aspect of the University’s
preservation efforts do you find the most compelling?
I’m excited by the landscapes that are part of the
Academical Village, the layers of the design work that
they embody and the interpretation of those layers,
which is so necessary. Through careful research,
we’ve learned a great deal about the pavilion gardens
and their layers of historical significance. After
the initial Jeffersonian period, there’s the Warren
Manning period, in 1906. He developed a master
plan for the gardens, but not all of the design work
that followed was completed. Then, in 1948, the
Garden Club of Virginia became involved in restoring
the pavilion gardens. The Garden Club hired Alden
Hopkins, who was the resident landscape architect
for Colonial Williamsburg. He created plans for the
pavilion gardens in the Colonial Revival style.
Q: Why do you feel that supporting the University’s
preservation of its historic buildings and landscapes is of
such great importance?
I would begin by saying that the Academical
Village is a UNESCO World Heritage site, the only
campus in America to have that designation. It’s
an international masterpiece. I believe taking care
of this icon that we have is both a privilege and
a responsibility. We are so fortunate to have this
legacy. Also, it’s important that we endow young
people with that value and help them understand the
importance of stewardship.
*Editor’s note: For more information about River Fields,
please visit www.riverfields.org. For more information about
the Cultural Landscape Foundation, see www.tclf.org.
Kenan Research Award Winners Focus on U.Va.’s Lawn
F
OUR UNIVERSITY
students spent the summer
on the Lawn, conducting
three separate research
projects focusing on the Academical
Village.
Their research was funded by the
William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment Fund
of the Academical Village, which awards
summer grants to support students who
conduct research projects that increase
public understanding of the original
precinct of the University designed by
Thomas Jefferson. Each Kenan Scholar
receives up to $4,000 toward his or her
research, with an additional $1,000 for
the faculty adviser.
The 2011 Kenan Award recipients
include Anna Merrick Bonewitz
of Grapevine, Texas, a secondyear doctoral student in art and
architectural history in the College and
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences,
who researched faculty life on the
Lawn from the time of its earliest
residency, compiling biographical
sketches of individual faculty
members. Her adviser is Richard Guy
Wilson, Commonwealth Professor of
Architectural History.
Another award recipient is
Nicholas Genau of Buffalo, N.Y., a
Clockwise from top left: award winners Anna Bonewitz, Nicholas Genau, Owen Gallogly, and Thomas Howard
doctoral student in art and architectural
history in the College and Graduate
School of Arts & Sciences, who
explored early perceptions of the
Academical Village, including written
and visual descriptions by the public,
historians, artists and architects from
1826 to 1867. Wilson is also his adviser.
The final two Kenan Award
recipients are Thomas Howard of
Richmond, Va., a rising third-year
history major in the College of Arts &
Sciences; and Owen Gallogly, also
of Richmond, a rising third-year
government and history double major
in the College. Their project entailed
writing a history of the Jefferson
Literary and Debating Society, the
oldest student organization at the
University and the second-oldest
Greek letter organization in North
America. They are working with
Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation Professor
of History.
“The Kenan Award provides
students with a unique opportunity to
study the Academical Village and then
to share their findings with the public,”
said Lucy Russell, executive director
of the Center for Undergraduate
Excellence, which administers the
Kenan Awards. “This year’s projects
promised to shed light on some very
interesting aspects of the University
that haven’t been explored before.”
Speaking of the importance of
Kenan-funded research, Onuf said,
“The opportunity to do cuttingedge research — for us, in the
archives — significantly extends and
enriches undergraduate education at
the University.”
The students’ respective projects
will conclude later this fall.
Kenan made his fortune by
founding the company that became
Union Carbide and was a partner in
the Flagler System Companies. In his
later years, he became a philanthropist
focused on education. U.Va. has
benefited from his generosity through
fellowships, professorships and grants.
2011–2012 Report
Historic Landscape Institute
Celebrates 15 Years
THIS PAST SUMMER, Mary Hughes, the
University’s landscape architect, co-directed the
15th annual Historic Landscape Institute with
Peter Hatch, Monticello’s director of gardens
and grounds. The Institute is a two-week adult
education course that uses the Thomas Jeffersondesigned landscapes as a laboratory to explore
the multidisciplinary field of historic landscape
preservation.
The curriculum covers a wide variety of topics,
including horticulture, architecture, archaeology
and materials conservation. Elite historic
preservation scholars, including Hughes and Hatch,
lead the lectures, tours, workshops and field trips.
Other historic preservation experts, including
University faculty and staff as well as staff members
from Monticello and the Thomas Jefferson Center
for Historic Plants, assist with the instruction. In
addition, the Institute dedicates three class days to
field trips at other historic places in central Virginia
such as Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Bremo Plantation
and Colonial Williamsburg.
Designed to appeal to a diverse group of
adult students, the Institute has welcomed novices
and experts from across the United States, Europe
and even as far away as New Zealand. During the
program, participants may board in student rooms
on the Lawn, which allows them to experience
directly the shared learning and living environment
that Thomas Jefferson envisioned for the
Academical Village.
The Historic Landscape Institute accepts
applicants yearly, welcoming amateurs and
professionals in the fields of horticulture, history
and landscape architecture. The application
process begins in late January. Because class size
is limited, prospective applicants are encouraged
to email Mary Hughes at mvh2t@virginia.edu for
details about participating. You may also visit
the University’s historic preservation website,
www.campaign.virginia/historicpreservation, for a
link to the Institute’s Web page.
According to Cauthen, Poe first
lived on the West Lawn, but later moved
to a single room on the West Range
in a section known as ‘Rowdy Row’.”
As a student, Poe was plagued with
financial woes, which he blamed on
the parsimony of John Allan, who had
Newly refurbished interior of the West Range room No. 13, where Edgar Allan Poe
taken him into his household after Poe’s
is believed to have lived during his student days.
parents had died, but never adopted
him. Allan apparently sent Poe to the
University without enough money to
cover his student expenses.
Allan withdrew Poe from the
University following examinations
in December 1826 and brought him
back to Richmond, leaving his debts in
Charlottesville unsettled. Poe was bitter
about his time at the University, feeling
his poverty had made him an outcast.
NE OF THE University’s earliest students
The Poe presence at U.Va. lay dormant for more
has remained one of its most famous. This
than 40 years after his death, but English professor
past summer, efforts began to keep his
Charles W. Kent led a revival in the late 1890s.
memory alive.
A mass meeting of students at Jefferson Hall
Renovations on the West Range rooms in July
on April 13, 1897, resulted in the formation of the
included the sprucing up of No. 13, purportedly
Poe Memorial Association. The group raised money
the room in which Edgar Allan Poe slept. Crews
and commissioned sculptor George Julian Zolnay to
upgraded the electrical system and lights, refinished
produce a bust of Poe, which now resides in the main
the floor and recorded a new message on the purpose
hall of Alderman Library.
and description of the room.
Capitalizing on the unique relationship between
The Raven Society maintains No. 13 as a
Poe and the University, the Raven Society was
shrine to Poe, a student at U.Va. from February
formed in 1904 as the U.Va. version of Phi Beta
to December of 1826. A glass door allows visitors
Kappa (which was itself established at U.Va. in 1908).
to see it furnished as a student room would have
The University gave the society 13 West Range in
been in the early 19th century, and they can press a
1906 for a Poe museum. The room was in place, with
button to hear a recording about Poe’s time at U.Va.
reproduction furniture, for the centenary of Poe’s
The furniture, provided by the Raven Society, is
birth in 1909.
authentic to the period, but does not have any direct
“Students in Poe’s day would have had to rent or
connection to Poe.
buy their own furniture,” Gilliam said. “None of what
University historian Alexander “Sandy” Gilliam
was in the museum room was original. In his last
said many student records, including Poe’s room
weeks at the University, Poe broke up his furniture
assignments, were lost in the Rotunda fire of 1895,
and used it for firewood to stay warm.”
but he noted that University oral tradition places Poe
In the late 1930s, Professor Edmund S. Campbell,
in the room.
head of the School of Architecture, led efforts to
“As far as anybody knows, Poe lived on the Lawn
refurnish 13 West Range to make it look more like
and then moved to the range,” Gilliam said. “When
the student rooms of 1826. In the 1950s, the room
the Raven Society was formed in 1904, there were still
was again renovated to link it even more closely with
some alive who remembered.”
its alleged former occupant, removing the mantel and
In a short piece in 1991 on Poe’s time at the
closets that had been added after 1826. Additionally,
University, English professor Irby B. Cauthen Jr.
an alumnus named A. Churchill Young donated Poe’s
wrote that there is a choice of rooms by which to
bed from the Allan house in Richmond. That bed was
commemorate Poe.
later moved back to Richmond to the Poe Museum.
The Spirit of Poe
Resides Evermore
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Effort Under Way to Keep the Fires Burning
S
TUDENT RESIDENTS of the
Academical Village learned in
mid-September that University
safety officials have banned the use of
fireplaces in Lawn and Range rooms
because of cracks found in many of the
chimneys and flues.
According to Michael B. Merriam,
associate director of maintenance
for Facilities Management, crews
working on the gabled roofs over the
student rooms between Pavilions VII
and IX first discovered the chimneys’
deteriorating condition. The cracks
could allow a chimney fire to spread
quickly into the roofs over the rooms
along the Lawn and the Ranges, where
there are no firebreaks.
Bundles of wood sit unused because
of a newly instituted ban on the use of
fireplaces in Lawn and range rooms.
The chimney flues on the Lawn
and Range are made of either stainless
steel or a cement mixture, according
to Merriam, but the last major work
on the chimneys was done in the early
1990s. He said the cement mixture
flues are cracked, while the stainless
steel ones are corroding from the
creosote produced by fires. Black
Goose Chimneys, a consulting firm
that examined the 106 chimneys,
found nearly all to be compromised
to some degree and recommended
they not be used until the chimneys,
flues, fireboxes
and dampers
are repaired,
Merriam said.
Although the
rooms have fire and
smoke detectors,
there is currently
no fire suppression
system. University
officials recently
announced the
decision to install
a fire suppression
system in the
rooms to provide the most up-to-date
protection for these historic structures.
The University has identified an
outside company that can repair
the flues during the coming winter
break and complete the suppression
installation in the summer of 2012.
The total cost for the repairs
and new fire suppression system is
expected to be $3.7 million. News of
the ban on fireplace use galvanized a
grassroots fundraising effort, which
recently garnered a $105,000 gift
from an alumni couple. In addition,
the Board of Managers of the U.Va.
Alumni Association announced that
it will match dollar for dollar the
first $1 million of contribution to the
fund. For more information about the
“Keep the Fires Burning” effort, visit
www.keepthefiresburning.org.
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Historic Preservation at The University of Virginia
Sustaining the Jeffersonian Legacy
Jefferson’s Circle recognizes donors who provide generous support to historic preservation efforts on an annual basis. Shaun and Foster Duncan served as co-chairs
from 2010–2011. The following donors have given $1,000 or more in the past fiscal year. The Corinthian level recognizes lifetime donors of $25,000 or more.
TUSCAN $1,000–$2,499
Elizabeth A. Carr, M.D., and
Christopher Acheson
Valerie B. Ackerman
Barbara Maxwell Adatto and
Kenneth N. Adatto, M.D.
Alison Lehan Allman and
Patrick H. Allman III
The Honorable Thomas M. Ammons III
Martha L. Barham and Frank E. Barham
John T. Berger III
Kathleen Binnig and
Christian F. Binnig
Karen Biolsi and Daniel W. Biolsi
Adrienne Biel Brook and Julian M. Brook
Marianne F. Buchanan and
William B. Buchanan, Jr.
Nancy Brown Buck and N. Harrison Buck
Maurice G. Burnett
Lisa Anne Clifton and John T. Hailer
DuPre C. Cochran and
G. Moffett Cochran
John H. Cocke
Annetta J. Coffelt
Robert M. Coffelt, Jr.
Ruth C. Cross
Rebecca L. Crowder and
Jimmie K. Crowder
Robert B. Cullen
Sara Penn Daniel
Margha McCarthy Davis and
Joe W. Davis, Jr.
Lucille H. Digges and Kennerly H. Digges
Karen Lee Keys DuVal and
Daniel H. DuVal
Jeanette P. Ern and Ernest H. Ern
Margaret A. Eschenroeder and
H. Cappel Eschenroeder
Camilla S. Fair and Robert R. Fair
Anne Tullidge Farrell and
Thomas F. Farrell
Georgia M. Willis Fauber and
J. Everette Fauber II
The Honorable Henry B. Frazier III and
Joan M. Frazier
Carol K. Frist and Robert A. Frist, M.D.
Jocelyn Keyes Gallinek and
W. Eric Gallinek
Ann Wagner Gill and Howard E. Gill, Jr.
Colleen J. Grant and Peter M. Grant
Susan J. Gregory
Tammy Allen and Dan Gropper
Meredith Strohm Gunter and
Bradley H. Gunter
Cheri Stern Hahn and Matthew C. Hahn
Lindsay G. Halsey and Brenton S. Halsey
Karin S. Howell and
Lawrence D. Howell II
F. Gregory Hudson
Ellenor B. Jarrett
Meredith Bradley Jenkins and
Benjamin J. Jenkins
Elizabeth Kahn Jump and
William A. Jump III
William M. Jump
Heather Hammond Kadel and
Eric J. Kadel, Jr.
Deborah C. McLean and Keith L. Kearney
Linda Pyle Kennard and
John V.O. Kennard
Catherine Kinniburgh and
Mark A. Kinniburgh
Mary Foster Kock
Gail W. Landon and Robert B. Landon
Kathryn M. Lee and Richard H. Lee
Francine Maestri and Bruno Maestri
The Honorable James S. Mathews and
Melissa K. Mathews
Catherine Waller McGowin and
J. F. McGowin III, M.D.
Sarah Ward McKay and
Christopher M. McKay
Linda Merrick and Charles P. Merrick III
Gloria T. Misner and Donald H. Misner
Deaderick C. Montague
John P. Montague
Eleanor M. Montague and
Percy Montague III
Peter W. Morgan
Jennifer Symon Nettles and
Larry W. Nettles
Joseph A. Paradis, Jr.
Elizabeth Parkinson and
Geoffrey M. Parkinson
Valerie D. Pearce
Jerome Chambers Philpott
Catherine A. Powers
Patricia Prentiss and Michael Prentiss
Alexandra Pruner and David R. Pruner
Margaret Quayle and Frank J. Quayle III
Beth Leigh Bickley Reagan and
Robert W. Reagan
Ramona Booze Reed, M.D., and
Larry N. Reed
Elizabeth Chew Rider and
Allen B. Rider III
Sara Tyler Roades and
Charles W. Roades, Jr.
Fannie S. Rosenthal and
Gilbert M. Rosenthal
Alyssa Isoldi Scheffer and Andy Scheiffer
Jane L. Shackelford and
Virginius R. Shackelford III
Barbara K. Shea and Frank A. Shea III
Roxanne Sherbeck and Jon C. Jackson
Jane-Ashley Harris Skinner and
Peter G. Skinner
Shirley S. Small and Albert H. Small
Susan Fry Starke and Wallace M. Starke
Sharon R. Strine and Michael Strine
Melissa Moore Sutherland and
William M. Sutherland
Holly Tabernilla and
Armando A. Tabernilla
Ann H. Tilton, M.D., and
Gregory D. Tilton, M.D.
Janice Huffman Timms and
Barney Andrew Timms
Thomas O. Trotter
Susan Cummins Tuke and
Robert D. Tuke
Virginia Valentine and
E. Massie Valentine
Thomas R. Vandeventer
Mary L. Vardell and Stephen M. Vardell
Ann M. Via and Harold A. Via, Jr.
Frederick M. Vorder-Bruegge, Jr.
Diane Mills Walker and John E. Walker, Jr.
Sheryl B. Watson and John R. Watson, Jr.
Jane Whisnant and Bob Whisnant
Kathy White and Scott S. White, M.D.
George C. Williams, Jr.
Betsy McNamara Wills and
W. Ridley Wills III
Karen Baragona Wise and
Andrew E. Wise, M.D.
Sharon Lee Wood
Allison Scott Wright
Trula Leventis Wright and
John H. Wright III
Roslyn D. Young, Jr.
Anne Lutz Zacharias
Francis N. Zehmer and
John G. Zehmer, Jr.
Marianne Gerard Zura, M.D., and
Bob Zura, M.D.
Anonymous (1)
DORIC LEVEL $2,500–$4,999
Sue Scott Beddow and David T. Beddow
Linda Leatherbury, M.D., and
D. Spencer Brudno, M.D.
Lissy Bryan and Stewart Bryan
T. Henry Clarke V.
Meredith Hollady Skelly Hughes and
Christopher D. Hughes
T. Patrick Kelly
Mary Pat Brown and
Joel Barry Kleinman
Lisa S. Lewis
Patricia A. Melcher
Anne Nesbitt and
Thomas E. Nesbitt, Jr., M.D.
Mary Kay Parker and Gray S. Parker
Julia P. Schnuck and Todd R. Schnuck
Elizabeth Kirk Weymouth and
Philip Blackburn Weymouth
Susan S. Wynne and John O. Wynne
Anonymous (1)
IONIC LEVEL $5,000–$24,999
Carl O. Atkins, Jr.
Patricia Bates Bardenwerper and
Walter W. Bardenwerper
Shaun Saer Duncan and
R. Foster Duncan
Lee H. Ellis and Clyde E. Ellis, Jr.
Lee R. Forker, Jr.
Gregory A. McCrickard
J. Latane Ware, M.D.
Anonymous (1)
CORINTHIAN $25,000 AND MORE
Michael L. Ainslie
Claire Liedtke Alexander and
John D. Alexander, Jr.
Suzanne Fernstrom Allan*
Sara S. Allen and Ashby B. Allen
Jeffrey Stewart Amling
Jane Apple and David F. Apple, Jr., M.D.
Virginia Apple and
David French Apple III
Mary B. Bass and Lucien L. Bass III
Roshanak Batmanghelidj and
Bahman Batmanghelidj
Tamara Bazzle and Kenneth L. Bazzle
Brandon Moore Berkeley and
Richard M. Berkeley
M. Kappner C. Boles
Lindsay Corrigan Bolton and
George Brown Bolton
Return to Jefferson’s Design
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HIS PAST SUMMER, David J. Neuman, architect for the University, made a presentation
to the Neighborhoods Advisory Group on the status of historic preservation projects in the
Academical Village. Below are photos of the Pavilion VII roof and railing system restoration.
Nina J. Botsford and
Kenneth Bruce Botsford, M.D.
Caroline Zeller Brown and
Douglas Coleman Brown, M.D.
Mary Gibson Bryant and
Frederick Lewis Bryant
Laura L. Bucholz
Patricia Jones Burnette and
Kevin Burnette
Linda L. Byers*
Shirlie Camp and William M. Camp, Jr.
Warren F. Chauncey
The Honorable George M. Cochran*
and Lee S. Cochran
James J. Corbalis III
Jane E. Covington and
James E. Covington, Jr.
Leonard W. Cox*
Olga W. Dalton and
John Caulfield Dalton, M.D.
Tambra Darby and Charles P. Darby III
Sam Dinos and John L. Dinos
Mary B. Doffermyre and
Everette L. Doffermyre, Jr.
Helen E. Dragas and
Lewis Warrington Webb III
Jennifer J. Eddy and
Thomas Philips Eddy, Jr.
Eli Banana
Robert Douglas Ezzell
Fair Play Foundation
Kathleen G. Favrot and
H. Mortimer Favrot, Jr.
Susan M. Feinour and Edwin R. Feinour
Thomas H. Fooks V
Cynthia N. Ford and Edsel B. Ford II
Judith E. Forker and Lee R. Forker, Jr.
Elizabeth W. Fountain and
Frank S. Fountain
Jennie Lee Fowlkes and
Hobart V. Fowlkes
Phyllis Fritts and Guy A. Fritts
The Garden Club of Virginia
Lisa Ostergard Gardner and
Ted Allan Gardner
Karen O’Such Gorman and
William J. Gorman, Jr.
John Paul Graham
Vincent G. Graham
Jessica Smith Graney and
Patrick C. Graney III
Gretchen Swanson Family Foundation
Amy Mitchell Griffin and John A. Griffin
Rebecca R. Guidice and
Carl W. Guidice, Jr.
Guy-Ezzell Agency, Inc.
Sarah S. Howard and Timothy E. Howard
Jane Rinehart Janssen and
Alexander Patton Janssen
Elizabeth R. Johnson and Eric P. Johnson
Hyland B. Justice and Henry A. Justice III
Lucius J. Kellam, Jr.
Thomas S. Kenan III
Beverley G. King
Ann A. Kington and Mark J. Kington
Helen Buechl Kirkpatrick*
Linda S. Klaiman and Henry S. Klaiman
Shahnaz Batmanghelidj and
Radford Werner Klotz
Connie Clark Laudenschlager and
Rohn Laudenschlager*
Peter O. Lawson-Johnston
Edith M. Light and
Robert Chambliss Light, Jr.
Mary Bland Love
Rand Riviere Mason and
Raymond A. Mason
Karen Apple Mathews
and George W. Mathews III
Eston E. Melton III
Robin Scott Millay and Roger F. Millay
John Jordan Moritz
Christina B. Moyer and Dennis K. Moyer
Barbara Elizabeth Nau and
John L. Nau III
John Jerauld Owen
Alice Z. Pannill and William G. Pannill
Mary Creighton Pardo and
James A. Pardo, Jr.
Blaine T. Phillips
Benjamin K. Phipps, Jr.
Randolph P. Pillow, M.D.
Ann R. Piper and Thomas L. Piper III
Anne Wrenn Poulson and
Richard J.M. Poulson
Marc Anthony Puntereri
Frances K. Reid and Kenneth Reid
Virginia L.F. Ross and
Michael Charles Ross
Jerry S. Sandridge and
Leonard W. Sandridge
Cecil C. Scanlan and William Scanlan, Jr.
Robert A. Schumacher
Elizabeth P. Scott
Susan Bailey Scott and
Sidney Buford Scott*
Priscilla Searcy and Christian D. Searcy
Sherrie J. Sidman and Thomas J. Sidman
Hunter J. Smith
Megan Apple Stephenson
Ruth F. Stern and A. Edwin Stern, Jr.
Mary Fleming Thompson and
George R. Thompson III
Jill Stein Tietjen
Caroline Favrot Trube and
Harry John Trube
Phoebe Brian Tudor and
Robert B. Tudor III
James W. Utt
C. S. Brent Winn, Jr.
Anonymous (2)
Rotunda Restoration Fund
$1,000 AND MORE TO SUPPORT THE
ROTUNDA RESTORATION
FUND IN 2010–11
Gretchen Swanson Family Foundation
Meredith Skelly Hughes and
Christopher D. Hughes
Mary Pat Brown and
Joel Barry Kleinman
Helen E. Dragas and
Lewis Warrington Webb III
Gail W. Landon and Robert B. Landon
Barbara Elizabeth Nau and
John L. Nau III
Susan L. Slayton and
Russell O. Slayton, Jr.
Janice Huffman Timms and
Barney Andrew Timms
Founding member of Jefferson’s Circle
* Deceased
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Writers: Mary Carlson, Matt Kelly, Linda Kobert,
Katelyn Sevin
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Designer: Roseberries
Photographers: Dan Addison, Tom Cogill, Cole Geddy,
Jane Haley, James Zehmer
University crews recently renovated portions
of the roof and railing system of Pavilion VII, the
oldest of the pavilions on the Lawn.
Right: Pavilion VII’s slate-covered, hipped roof
was removed and replaced over student rooms
35 through 51 with a flat roof deck system
similar to Jefferson’s original design.
University of Virginia
Office of Historic Preservation
P.O. Box 400807
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4807