Poplar Forest, Bedford County, Virginia
Description: House plan
Date: ca. 1801-1806?
Medium:
Support: Paper AJ and/or AQ.
Dimensions:
Condition:
Author: Jefferson?
Owner: ViU
Classification:
N-255
Publication History:
- Author: Nichols
- Title: Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Drawings
- Date: 1984
- Author: Thurlow and Berkeley
- Title: Jefferson Papers No. 7
- Date: ?
Commentary:
Plan of house, rooms designated in Anglo-Saxon, showing center block with octagonal projection and wings on either side with stairs in hyphens. Survey on reverse. Various papers glued together. On a photostat Fiske Kimball noted: "Plan of 1801-1806, related to early studies of Poplar Forest." (FDN)
Drawing
- Description: House plan
- Location: entire page
- Features:
- Octagon room
- Chambers on either side
- Text:
- Description: Room designations
- Location: within spaces on plan
- Transcription:
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- Spraecende-cofe (Octagon room; translation: "speaking room")