1. Journal #4: 03-01-2010 Design Your Dream Home
Pretend that money is no object, and describe what your future home would be like if you could design it from the ground up.
You can sketch it out too, if you like.
Some ideas: Where would your dream home be located? Would you have hidden rooms? A swimming pool? 30 closets?

2. Thomas Jefferson: American Renaissance Man
By Vanessa Molden
Western High School

3. Facts about Thomas Jefferson
Third President
Born: April 13, 1743 in Virginia
Died: July 4, 1826 at Monticello in Virginia
Married to Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
Drafted the Declaration of Independence
Founded and designed buildings for the University of Virginia

4. Facts about Thomas Jefferson
Powerful advocate of liberty
Studied at the College of William and Mary, then read law
Excellent writer, not a good speaker
Wrote a bill establishing religious freedom
Minister to France, Sympathetic to the Revolution
Renaissance Man: Architect, Scientist, Writer

5. Where Did Jefferson Find Inspiration?
Designed By Jefferson
NOT Designed By Jefferson
Virginia State Capitol
Maison Caree, BC

6. Where Did Jefferson Find Inspiration?
NOT Designed By Jefferson
Designed By Jefferson
Monticello (in Virginia)
Jefferson’s Home
Villa Rotunda, 1566
Andrea Palladio

7. Where Did Jefferson Find Inspiration?
NOT Designed By Jefferson
Designed By Jefferson
Pantheon, AD
University of Virginia Rotunda

8. Farmington in Louisville, KY (on Bardstown Road)
Jefferson Also Designed…
Farmington in Louisville, KY (on Bardstown Road)
It was originally the home of the Speed family, friends of Abraam Lincoln. Lincoln lived there briefly while recovering from an illness.

9. Characteristics of Jefferson’s Architecture
Makes use of elements of Greek and Roman Architecture
Called Greek Revival or Neoclassical
Columns
Domes
Rotundas
Pediments / Gables

10. Use these images for the Open Response Question
UNIVERSITY OF
VIRGINIA ROTUNDA
PANTHEON