Taking Care Of The Lawn

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June/July 1984

14 years ago By admin

Volume

35

Issue

4

In 1976 the Jefferson-designed buildings and grounds that make up the Lawn were judged by the American Institute of Architects to be the single most outstanding achievement of American architecture.

To make certain that the Lawn is preserved, the University of Virginia is currently seeking to raise an endowment of at least a million dollars. The effort is part of a long-range $90-million drive that has been going on since 1981 to raise funds for the university as a whole. The campaign will run until December 1984.

As of this spring, the restoration of two of the ten pavilions paralleling the Lawn is complete, as is the work on the Rotunda itself. The endowment fund will be used to repair aged roofs, wiring, paint, floors, and termite damage. This is the first time since they were built that the pavilions have undergone any basic rehabilitation.

If you are traveling in Virginia, tours of the historic grounds are given at 10:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. daily from May through August. During the school year, the tours start at 10:00 and 11:00 A.M. and at 2:00, 3:00, and 4:00 P.M. daily. In addition, the Rotunda is open to visitors most of the year.

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Stories published from "June/July 1984"

The Triumph Of Watergate

Authored by: The Editors

“We do not ordinarily mean to involve ourselves, as historians, in the incomplete events of any given moment,” wrote the editors of this magazine in 1974. But they saw the Watergate cover-up as “an assault on history itself.” Now, ten years after Richard M. Nixon was forced to resign his office rather than submit to impeachment, we have asked two eminent authors to reconsider the events of that incredible summer.

I. The Hour Of The Founders

Authored by: Walter Karp

In which a President fails to fulfill his constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” And a reluctant Congress acts.

II. The Final Act

Authored by: Vance Bourjaily

A sometime “Nixon-hater” looks back on Watergate and discovers that his glee of a decade ago has given way to larger, sadder, and more generous emotions

Painted On Water

Authored by: Jerome Tarshis

Turn-of-the-century American painters came to Venice for its ancient splendors and pearly light. In a few years they captured its canals, palaces, and people in a spirit of gentle modernism that looks better than ever.

The Lawn: America’s Greatest Architectural Achievement

Authored by: James Marston Fitch

In designing, the University of Virginia, Jefferson sought not only to educate young men for leadership, but to bring aesthetic maturity to the new nation

“To Bring You The Picture Of Europe Tonight…”

Authored by: William L. Shirer

In 1938 the European correspondent for CBS was in Austria when the Nazis marched in. He wanted to tell the world about it—but first he had to help invent a whole new kind of broadcasting.

One Hundred Years Of Huck Finn

Authored by: Robert B. Brown

It was a difficult birth, but it looks as if the child will live forever

Down The Mississippi

Authored by: The Editors

From the North Woods to New Orleans with an artist-reporter of the last century

Saving The Statue

Authored by: Frederick E. Allen

After standing in New York Harbor for nearly one hundred years, this thin-skinned but sturdy lady needs a lot of attention. She’s getting it -- from a crack team of French and American architects and engineers.