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     • His need for a new home became acute when a fire burned Shadwell to the ground on February 1, 1770, destroying almost all of his books and papers. Consulting his taste for the sublime more than the practical, Jefferson decided to build at the summit of a hill overlooking Shadwell, naming his new home Monticello (“little mountain”).
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   • In Paris as minister to France, Jefferson designed the new Capitol in 1785 with the help of the celebrated draftsman Charles-Louis Clérisseau. Hoping to safeguard the conception from changes in Richmond, Jefferson commissioned a scale model of the exterior from the model-maker Jean-Pierre Fouquet.

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   • Thomas Jefferson completes work on the first version of Monticello. Thomas Jefferson serves first as minister plenipotentiary to negotiate commercial treaties with foreign powers, and then as minister to France. While in France, Thomas Jefferson designs and submits plans for a statehouse in Richmond based on the Maison Carrée, in Nîmes.

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3. www.architectmagazine.com › design › notes-on-thomasNotes on Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Capitol - Architect Magazine

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   Dec 28, 2020 · In 1776, Jefferson proposed a bill to the Virginia House of Delegates to move its state capital from Williamsburg, the colonial seat since 1699, to Richmond, a fledgling settlement farther up the James River.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Virginia_State_CapitolVirginia State Capitol - Wikipedia

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   It houses the oldest elected legislative body in North America, the Virginia General Assembly, first established as the House of Burgesses in 1619. The Capitol was conceived of by Thomas Jefferson and Charles-Louis Clérisseau in France, based on the Maison Carrée in Nîmes.

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   May 3, 2024 · In 1786, Jefferson completed his design for the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond—his first attempt to realize the high standards for public architecture he wished for the new republic. Based on an ancient Roman temple he had studied in France, the building exemplifies Jefferson’s reverence for classicism and his burgeoning architectural ...

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6. www.lva.virginia.gov › exhibits › capitolDesigning the Capitol - Library of Virginia

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   The chance to create a new Capitol did not arise until 1785, when the commonwealth's Directors of Public Buildings requested a design from Jefferson while he was serving as minister to France. The site chosen for the new building, Shockoe Hill, overlooked the falls of the James River in Richmond.

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   Mar 14, 2022 · The Capitol of Virginia was designed by Thomas Jefferson with help from Charles-Louis Clérisseau in 1785 and occupied by the General Assembly in 1788. It is the first American state capitol building designed after the Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and the first public building in the New World to be constructed in the form of a classical ...

8. encyclopediavirginia.org › entries › jeffersonThomas Jefferson and Architecture - Encyclopedia Virginia

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   Apr 4, 2024 · Extant drawings indicate that Jefferson contemplated a retreat house for many years, but he did not finally embark on its construction until 1806. Located in Bedford County on a large plantation, what came to be known as Poplar Forest sat on land inherited by Jefferson’s wife.

9. www.lva.virginia.gov › exhibits › capitolJefferson and the Capitol of Virginia

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   Jefferson & The Capitol of Virginia examines how Jefferson's achievement in civic design began with the Virginia State Capitol in which he united the lofty principles and grand scale of the Classical tradition with established Virginia customs.