Fire destroyed the Rotunda, the most iconic feature of the University of Virginia’s Grounds, in October 1895. University officials immediately pushed to rebuild. In 1896, after a false start with ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WRIC) — A new exhibit at the University of Virginia is bringing history back to life with books once thought to have been destroyed in the 1895 Rotunda fire. To mark the 200th ...

One of Thomas Jefferson’s educational goals for the Rotunda at his University of Virginia was to prompt students to look up from their books long enough to gaze in wonder into the heavens.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda at the University of Virginia is ensnared in a spider’s web of scaffolding these days, the focus of a $58.3 million renovation of the World ...

Thomas Jefferson wanted to bring the stars indoors. Jefferson, in designing the University of Virginia’s iconic Rotunda, planned to paint constellations on the ceiling of the Dome Room. He never ...

The University of Virginia Board of Visitors endorsed and acted upon several student demands on Friday. The board passed resolutions that will change or remove plaques on the Rotunda that honor UVa’s ...

On October 27, 1895, a fire erupted in the Rotunda, in the heart of the University of Virginia (UVA) campus. The Rotunda — designed by Thomas Jefferson, the university’s founder and a former U.S.