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[[Image:University of Virginia.jpg|thumb|The Rotunda of the University of Virginia. It was designed by Thomas Jefferson.]]
[[Image:University of Virginia.jpg|thumb|The Rotunda of the University of Virginia. It was designed by Thomas Jefferson.]]
Jefferson was the founder of the University of Virginia; He did also the drawnings for ''The Rotunda'' in 1819.
Jefferson was the founder of the University of Virginia; he did also the drawnings for ''The Rotunda'' in 1819.
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[[Thomas Jefferson]] was among the many people who submitted a plan for the White House. His design, however, was not chosen. Instead, James Hoban, an Irish immigrant architect living in Charleston, [[South Carolina]], won the competition and a $500 prize, with a design modeled after Leister House in [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]]. [http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/whitehse_2]
[[Thomas Jefferson]] was among the many people who submitted a plan for the White House. His design, however, was not chosen. Instead, James Hoban, an Irish immigrant architect living in Charleston, [[South Carolina]], won the competition and a $500 prize, with a design modeled after Leister House in [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]]. [http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/whitehse_2]
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Jefferson was an admirer of [[Andrea Palladio]]; the Palladian influece may be seen at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
==Death==
==Death==