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The Architecture of Jefferson Country

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Jefferson Country is a survey of the architecture of an historic significant region of Virginia, the county of Albemarle and the city of Charlottesville. Both are inextricably linked to the legacy of Thomas Jefferson and his builders. The county is unusually rich in vernacular buildings dated to all periods. This expansive survey, produced under the supervision of professor emeritus K. Edward Lay, has a far-reaching audience of national and regional scholars of American Architecture.

K. Edward Lay's book The Architecture of Jefferson Country: Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia was published in 2000 by the University Press of Virginia; a CD-ROM version containing the complete text and figures from the book and a searchable database of 2,409 structures illustrated with 3,359 images, was published by the Albemarle County Historical Society and produced by the Digital Media Lab of the Robertson Media Center that same year.

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