Henry Dawkins engraved this view of Princeton University with
Nassau Hall to the left. Designed and built between 1755-57, the
building contained a chapel, library, dining hall, kitchen, and
dormitory rooms which also served as recitation chambers. The
site on which the University of Virginia was developed was
typical of the rolling hills of the Piedmont countryside, and
the campus layout was developed to fit the sloping ground.
Jefferson described the site in a letter to U.S. Capitol
architect Benjamin Latrobe in 1817: The site...is on a narrow
ridge, declining from north to south, so as to give us a width
between the 2 rows of pavilions of 200 feet only from East to
West, and the gentle declivity [slope] of the ridge gives us
three levels of 255 feet each from North to South, each about 3
feet lower than the one next above....1 Questions for Drawings 1
& 2 1. Compare Drawings 1 and 2. What differences do you observe
in the design of these two universities? 2. In Drawing 2, how
can you tell the difference be