Selected Bibliography

• Ackerman, James S., The Villa:Form and Idelogy of Country Houses(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990)
• Adams, William Howard, ed. The Eye of Thomas Jefferson (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1976)
• Adams,William Howard, ed., Jefferson and the Arts: An Extended View ,(Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1976), contains important essays such as: Paul Norton, "Jefferson and the Planning of the National Capital,"
• Adams, William Howard, Jefferson's Monticello (New York:Abbeyville, 1984),
• "Architectural Forum Master Detail Series: Historic American Buildings: Liberty Hall, Frankfort, Kentucky, Thomas Jefferson, Architect," Architectural Forum61 (September 1934), 203-209. Spurious attribution.
• Beiswanger, William L., "The Temple in the Garden: Thomas Jefferson's Vision of the Monticello Landscape," Eighteenth Century Life n.s. 8 (January 1983), 170-88
• Beiswanger, William L. "Thomas Jefferson's Designs for Garden Structures at Monticello," Master's Thesis, University of Virginia, 1977
• Berman, Eleanor D., Thomas Jefferson Among the Arts (New York: Philosophical Press, 1947)
• Betts, Edwin Morris, "Groundplans and Prints of the University of Virginia, 1822-1826," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 90 (1946), 81-90.
• Betts, Edwin M., ed., Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book 1766-1824 (Philadelphia, 1944, later editions)
• Boyd, Julian, P., et al, eds.The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950+)
• Brownell, Charles, and Calder Loth, William Rasmussen, Richard Guy Wilson, The Making of Virginia Architecture (Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Charlottesville:University Press of Virginia, 1992)
• Bruce, Philip Alexander, History of the University of Virginia 1819-1919 (New York: MacMillan Co.1920)
• Cabell, Joseph, Early History of the University of Virginia (Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 1856)
• Carlton, Mable Mason, and Fiske Kimball, Thomas Jefferson: an outline of his life and service, with the story of Monticello, the home he reared and loved New York: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1924)
• Carson, Cary, and Norman F. Barka, William M. Kelso, Gary Wheeler Stone, and Del Upton, "Impermanent Architecture in the Southern American Colonies," Winterthur Portfolio 16 (Summer/Autumn, 1981), 135-78
• Chambers, Jr., S. Allen, Popular Forest and Thomas Jefferson(Lynchburg: Corporation for Thomas Jefferson's Popular Forest, 1993)
• Chinard, Gilbert, Thomas Jefferson: Apostle of Americanism (Boston: Little Brown,1939)
• Cote, Richard C., The Architectural Workmen of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia(Ph. D. dissertation, Boston University, 1986)
• Creese, Walter L., The Crowning of the American Landscape: Eight Great Spaces and their buildings (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985) 9-42.
• Cunningham, Jr., Noble E., In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson (paperback) (New York: Ballantine Books,1988 [1987])
• Dumbauld, Edward, Thomas Jefferson, American Tourist (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1946)
• Ford, Paul L., ed.The Works of Thomas Jefferson (New York: G. P. Putman, 1892, 1904) 10 vols, and 12 vols.
• Frary, Ihna Thayer, Thomas Jefferson, Architect and Builder (Richmond:Garrett and Massie, 1931) A pictorial supplement to Kimball, who wrote the introduction.
• Gowans, AlanImages of American Living: Four Centuries of Architecture and Furniture as Cultural Expression (Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott, 1964), 243-53--important but probably wrong interpretation of Jefferson's architecture as Masonic
• Guinness, Desmond and Julius Trousdale Sadler, Jr., Mr. Jefferson, Architect (New York: Viking, 1973)
• Hogan, Pendelton, The Lawn: A Guide to Jefferson's University (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia,1987) A basic tourist's guide--unfortunately it contains inaccuracies
• Isaac, Rhys, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790(Chapel Hill:Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 1982)--probably the most influential book on Virgina
• Kallen, H. M. "The Arts and Thomas Jefferson,Ethics53 (July 1943), 269-83.
• Kelso, William M. "Landscape Archaeology: A Key to Virginia's Past," Eighteenth Century Life 8, ns.2 (January 1983), 159-169.
• Kennedy, Roger, Architecture, Men, Women and Money(New York: Random House, 1985) Important treatment of Palladianism as the architecture of slavery
• Kimball, Fiske, American Architecture (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1928)
• Kimball, Fiske, "The Building of Bremo,"Virginia Magazine of History and Biography57 (January 1949)
• Kimball, Fiske, The Capitol of Virginia: A Landmark of Virginia Architecture ed. Jon Kukla, Martha C. Vick, Sarah Shields Driggs (Richmond:Virginia State Library and Archives, 1989), originally published as "Thomas Jefferson and the First Monument of the Classical Revival in America," Journal of the American Institute of Architects 3 (1915), 371-381, 421-433, 473-491 (Kimball's Ph. D. disseration at the University of Michigan, 1915)
• Kimball, Fiske, "A Church Designed by Jefferson," Architectural Record53 (February 1923), 184-186. Treats Christ Church in Charlottesville, has a much later photograph.
• Kimball, Fiske, Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and the Early Republic (New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1922)
• Kimball, Fiske, "Form and Function in the Architecture of Jefferson," Magazine of Art 40(April 1947), 150-153.
• Kimball, Fiske, "Jefferson and the Arts," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 87, 3 (1943), 238-245.
• Kimball, Fiske "Jefferson and the Public Buildings of Virginia, Williamsburg, 1770-1776," Huntington Library Quarterly 12, nos. 2-3 (February, May, 1949),
• Kimball, Fiske "Jefferson's Design for Two Kentucky Houses," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 9 (Oct. 1950) 14-16.
• Kimball, Fiske "Jefferson's Grounds and Gardens at Monticello," Landsapce Architecture 1926,
• Kimball, Fiske "The Life Portraits of Jefferson and their Replicas," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 88 , 6 (June 1944), 497-534.
• Kimball, Fiske "The Stuart Portraits of Jefferson," Gazetee des Beaux-Arts ^th Series, 23, no. 916 (June 1943), 329-344.
• Kimball, Fiske "Thomas Jefferson and the origins of the Classical Revival in America," Art and Archaeology I, 6 (May 1915), 219-227.
• Kimball, Fiske Thomas Jefferson, Architect (Boston: Privately Printed, 1916, reprint edition, with new introduction by Frederick Doventon Nichols, New York: Da Capo Press, 1968).
• Kimball, Maria, Jefferson: The Scene of Europe 1784-79 (New York: Coward-McCann, 1950)
• Lambeth, William Alexander, and Warren H. Manning, Thomas Jefferson as an Architect and a Designer of Landscapes(New York: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1913
• Lancaster, Clay, "Jefferson's Architectural Indebtedness to Robert Morris," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 10 (March 1951), pp. 3-10.
• Lancaster, Clay, "Palladianism in the Bluegrass," Gazette des Beaux-Arts VI per, vol. XXV, (1944) 347-370.
• Lasalla, Joseph Michael, "Thomas Jefferson's Designs for the University of Virginia" MA Thesis, University of Virginia, 1992.
• Lehmann, Karl, Thomas Jefferson: American Humanist (New York: Macmillan, 1947, reprint edition, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985).
• Lay, K. Edward, "Jefferson's Master Builders," University of Virginia Alumni News 80 (October 1991), 16-19.
• Lipscomb, Andrew A., and Albert E. Bergh, eds.The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Washington, D. C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1903-05), 20 vols.
• Little, Bryan, "Cambridge and the Campus: An English Antecedent for the Lawn of the University of Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 79 (April 1971), 190-201.
• Lounsbury, Carl L. ed., An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
• Lucas, Ann M. "Ordering His Environment: Thomas Jefferson's Architecture from Monticello to the University of Virginia," Master's Thesis, University of Virginia, 1989
• McDonald, Jr., Travis C. "The Brickwork at Popular Forest: Mr. Jefferson Builds His Dream House," APT Bulletin XXVII, nos.1-2 (1996), 36-46.
• McEwan, Barbara,Thomas Jefferson: Farmer (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 1991
• McLaughlin, Jack, Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder(New York: Henry Holt, 1988)
• Malone, Dumas,Jefferson and His Time 6 vols (Boston, 1948-81) The standard--and great--study
• Martin, Edwin T., Thomas Jefferson: Scientist (New York: Collier Books, 1952)
• Miller, Charles A., Jefferson and Nature: An Interpretation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988)
• Montgomery, Henry C., "The Architecture of the American Republic,"Classical Weekly34 (December 17, 1945), 74-78.
• Morrison, Hugh, Early American Architecture (New York: 1952) Traditional treatment of Jefferson as Architect in colonial vein
• Mumford, Lewis, "The Universalism of Thomas Jefferson," in his, The South in Architecture (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1941), 43-78
• Nichols, Frederick Doveton, Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Drawings (Boston:Massachusetts Historical Society, Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and the University Press of Virginia, 1961, and later editions), the standard list of drawings.
• Nichols, Frederick Doveton, and Ralph E. Griswold, Thomas Jefferson Landscape Architect (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978)
• Noland, Nancy, "Jefferson and Palladio," Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies 16 (May 1943), 1-15
• O'Gorman, James F.The Perspective of Anglo-American Architecture exh. cat. (Philadelphia: The Athenaeum, 1995)
• O'Neal, William B., and Frederick D. Nichols, "An Architectural History of the First University Pavilion," Magazine of Albemarle County History 15 (1955-56) 34-43.
• O'Neal, William B., "Financing the Construction of the University of Virginia: Notes and Documents" Magazine of Albermarle County History 23 (1964-65), 5-34.
• O'Neal, William B., ed., "An Intelligent Interest in Architecture, A Bibliography of Publications about Thomas Jefferson as an Architect, together with an Iconography of Nineteenth-Century Prints of the University of Virginia," The American Association of Architectural Bibliographers, Papers, 6 (1969), v-131. -dated but important.
• O'Neal,William B., Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda (Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1960)
• O'Neal, William B., "Michele and Giacome Raggi at the University of Virginia: With Notes and Documents."Magazine of Albermarle County History 18 (1959-60), 5-31.
• O'Neal, William B., Pictorial History of the University of Virginia (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1968)
• O'Neal, William B., "The Workmen at the University of Virginia 1817-1826" Magazine of Albemarle County History 17 (1958-59), 5-48.
• Onuf, Peter, ed., Jefferson Legacies (Charlottesville: University Press, 1994) has important essays on Monticello by Rhys Isaac, Lucia C. Stanton, "`Those Who Lobor for my Happiness': Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves," and Paul Finkleman, "Jefferson and Slavery: `Treason Against the Hopes of the World'".
• Padover, Saul K., Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: 1783-1818 (Washington, D. C., GPO, 1946), valuable compliation of documents
• Peterson,Merrill D., The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (New York: Oxford University Press, 1960).--important study, traces how Americans have viewed Jefferson
• Peterson, Merrill D.,Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography (New York: Scriber, 1986)--chapters on major themes in Jefferson studies; Frederick Nichols contributes on Jefferson and architecture.
• Peterson, Merrill D., Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation (New York:Oxford University Press, 1970)--excellent
• Peterson, Merrill D., ed., Visitors to Monticello (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989) Travelors and visitors accounts
• Pierson, William B.,The Colonial and the Neo-Classical Styes, vol. 1 in, American Buildings and Their Architects (Garden City: Doubleday, 1970)
• Reps, John W. The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965), one of few to treat Jefferson and planning.
• Rice, Jr., Howard C., Thomas Jefferson's Paris (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976).
• Riddick, Susan C., "The Influence of B. H. Latrobe on Jefferson's Design for the University of Virginia," Master's Thesis, University of Virginia, 1988
• Robinson, Joyce Henri, "An American Cabinet of Curiosities: Thomas Jefferson's Indian Hall at Monticello," Winterthur Portfolio 30, no. 1(Spring 1995), 41-58.
• Scott, Pamela, Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation (New York: Oxford, 1995)
• Shawen, Neil M. "The Casting of a Lengthened Shadow; Thomas Jefferson's Role in Determing the Site for a State University in Virginia." Ph. D. Dissertation, George Washington University, 1980
• Sommer, III, Frank H., "Thomas Jefferson's First Plan for a Virginia Building," in Papers on American Art, ed. John C. Milley (Maple Shade, N. J: Edinburgh Press, for the Friends of Independence National Historical Park, 1976)
• Sowerby, E. Millicent, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 5 vols. (Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, GPO, 1952-55).
• Stein, Susan R., The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello(New York: Abrams, 1993)
• Tallmadge, Thomas,The Story of Architecture in America, revised edition(New York: W. W. Norton, 1936), 82 where Jefferson is described "certainly ...not an artist and but doubtfully an architect."
• Tavernor, Robert, Palladio and Palladianism (London: Thames and Hudson, 1991)
• Turner, Paul V., Campus: An American Planning Tradition (New York: The Architectural History Foundation, 1984), 79-83.
• Vaughn, Joseph L. and Omer A. Gianney, Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda Restored, 1973-1976: A Pictorial Review with Commentary Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981
• Wenger, Mark R., "Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia State Capitol," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 101 (Jan. 1993), pp. 77-102.
• Wilson, Douglas L., "Dating Jefferson's Early Architectural Drawings," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 101 (Jan. 1993), 53-76.
• Wilson, Richard Guy, ed., Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The Creation of an American Masterpiece (Charlottesville: Bayly Museum and University Press of Charlottesville, 1993)
• Woods, Mary N. "Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia: Planning the Academical Village," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 44.3 (October 1985), 266-83.