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What roman temple inspired Thomas Jefferson to design the University of Virginias rotunda?

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What roman temple inspired Thomas Jefferson to design the University of Virginias rotunda?

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It was designed by Thomas Jefferson as the architectural&academic heart of his community of scholars or “academical village.” When it burned in 1985 Stanford White reconstructed it as an elaborate Beaux Arts interpretation in the Roman style. ChaCha!