EXPLANATIONS,

OF THE GROUND PLAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

Nos. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, are Pavilions, of two stories each, for the residence of the Professors separately, with each a lecturing room, and generally four rooms of accommodation for the family—a back yard and garden. The offices are below.

The small apartments numbered 1, to 55, filling the intervals between the Pavilions, are Dormitories of a single story, for two students each; all opening into a colonnade, along the whole range of 600 feet in length. These Dormitories have a flat roof, in the level of the upper floor of the Pavilions, which, through the Porticos, gives a private walk and communication to the families inhabiting the Pavilions.

A, B, C, D, E, F, are Hotels, to be let to housekeepers for dieting the students. The small intervening apartments, numbered 1 to 56, are Dormitories, as those of the two middle rows, all opening into arcades, continued along the whole range, 600 feet in length each.1 These Hotels have their offices below, with each a back-yard and garden, separated by cross-streets of communication with the Pavilions.

The ground between the two middle rows, in front and back of the Rotunda, is an open lawn looking S. S. E. 200 feet wide, and at present 900 feet in length, left open at one end for a continuation of the buildings indefinitely.

The ROTUNDA, filling up the Northernmost end of the ground is 77 feet in diameter, and in height, crowned by a Dome of 120 deg. of the sphere. The lower floor has large rooms for religious worship, for public examinations, and other associated purposes. The upper floor is a single room for a Library, canopied by the Dome and it’s sky-light.

The Rotunda is connected with the two rows of Pavilions by a Terras on each side of the height of its Basement, and breadth of the flank of it’s Portico; below the Terras is a space for gymnastick exercises, and a covered way uniting those of the two colonnades, and affording a sheltered passage round three sides of the lawn, 1400 feet in extent.

Within the back-yards are cisterns of fountain water, brought in pipes from a neighbouring mountain.

☞ Plans of the University of Virginia, can be had by applying to the Proctor, at 50 cents each, and the Report of the Commissioners at 12 1-2 cents.