Rotunda, University of Virginia
The Rotunda is a building located on The Lawn on the original grounds of the University of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson designed it to represent the "authority of nature and power of reason" and modeled it after the Pantheon in Rome. Construction began in 1822 and was completed in 1826. The campus of the new university was unique in that its buildings were surrounded by a library rather than a church, as was common at other universities in the English-speaking world.
