Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-06-15

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litigation with reference to the residue
of the Fnyerweather estate justified the
expectation Of 100000 from this source.
And the bill of relief before the Virgin
Ia legislature had been SO far assured
as to give reasonable assurance of
100000 from the bond issue which they
finally voted. Altogether there was
about $40 600 in sight for the work OF
reconstruction. .N
The task was to restore the rotunda |
and to construct system of new
buildings adequate for the enlarged |
feeds of the University. all in harmony |
with the original composition of Jefer-
son and SO arranged as to permit flu
ture extension as the growth and re-
sources of the school might justify and
demand. The new buildings We're to be
made as nearly fire proof as the funds
available for restoration would permit.
These buildings are now completed.
Their arrangement is simple and
! beautiful one. The main quadrangle is
| Il terraced lawn about nine hundred
| feet long, two hundred feet wide in the
| old part and three hundred feet wide in
! the new. AT the northern end is the
rotunda. a building in the Corinthian
style, modelled from the Pantheon in
| Rome. Its base consists Of four ter
! raced wings united at the eastern and
western ends by colonnadcs and cover
| ed by a Hat roof, forming with the
4 ItoIlI anu Soultl EOIl d SOlliiluOuS
promenade around the building. This
promenade. guarded by its handsome
parapet is /, beautiful feature OF the
renodelled structure. From the centre
OF the base rises the rotunda itself. cir
cular in plan, with Il shapely spherical
dome, and it's superb Cornthian por-
tcos. The interior is single room
from the portica level up, devoted en-
tircly to the uses of Il library. In addi-
ton to the space OH tho .t--.in floor there
are three galleries. tn, tpmost at the
springing of the dome ,s.ng carried by
| a peristylc of twenty Corinthian col
umns. The room is finished In white.
except the ceiling. wni>n is sky bite.
picked out with stars. The decorator.
about the central light is circle OF
ca giles. modelled from the figure in the
ceiling of the hall at Monticello. the
eagles seeming to soar downward
through the blue ether. ..oE
The base OF the building contains in
convenient proximity the offices OF ad-
minis,ratiun. the law lecture rooms. TIE
: law library and the assembly hall OF
. the Young Mems Christian Association
. The north portico looks out upon .
!, handsome court. which is the trans
/, formed site OF the o. Annex. Beyone
is the campus of the students athletic
e sports. With the gymnasium on the left
t and the leafy ok.9 OF Cars Hill rising
: above it's piilared l.ortico. and still flu,
|
o blue mountains of Virginia shutting il
the horizon. 1851.
$ From the southern portico street.-the
: the lawn. with the academic village
; of jefferson bordering the sides. TIL
. graceful colonnadcs. the classic facad,
of the professors pavihonS. with u
! Iow-roofetl lormitories for the student
e between. look like a fragment O
Greece set down beneath the soft Viz
!. gnia sky. Closing the quadrangle o
-. the southern end stand the three ne'
q buildings. simple and solid appearing
,f but harmonious in proportion and Xix
II all the rest, truly classic. The centrs
, member Of the academic building Ia
"a its pedir,lent adorned with a fine grou
A. of Zolnay. and beneath the words
IN Holy Writ. which might we'll be chose
- by tht. University as her Watchwore
1t | '.Yc shall know the truth. ana II
ne truth shall MAX" YOU free" The spas
or within is given up to Il superb corrlde
is and the auditorium, and old Roma
re amphi-theatre with opera chairs ar
in electric lights. The wings to right ar
o. left contain the lecture rooms of II
es academic classes. On the eastern sl
mt Of the new terrace stands the buildii
whose title commentaries the gene
SIS osity Of the donor-the RousS Phystc
n laboratory. on the western side the ne
se home of the engineering school of Z
Us JIniverSity-the mechanical labrador
~ Roth buildings have the same exteri
~ design.
w The entire group with its terrac
n;. and academic building at either en-
~ with it's residences and dormitories al
no arcades on each side. forms "A nc
~ harmonious and imposing group OF a
ademic buildings