Cabell Hall (Old) - Charlottesville, Virginia
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LJParr
N 38° 01.977 W 078° 30.288
17S E 718990 N 4212410
Located at the south end of the Lawn facing the Rotunda to the north.
Waymark Code: WMAWQD
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 03/04/2011
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19. The south end of the rectangle, an open field in Jefferson’s day is occupied by three buildings erected in 1898 and designed by Stanford White, who once exclaimed that the Lawn ‘embodies everything that matters most to me: Perfect harmony, perfect symmetry.’ CABELL HALL, named for Joseph Carrington Cabell, who, next to Jefferson, did most to create the university, faces the rotunda and is flanked by the ROUSS PHYSICAL LABORATORY on the east and the MECHANICAL LABORATORY on the west. The shallow portico has six Ionic columns and a pediment filled with symbolic figures by G.J.Zolnay. The semicircular rear of the structure contains the university auditorium. The large painting that forms the background for the platform is a reproduction of Rapael’s The School of Athens, copied by George W. Breck in 1900. The auditorium is used for concerts, by the University Players, and for sessions of the Institute of Public affairs, which, since 1927, has brought to the university for two weeks early in July men and women qualified to speak on national and international affairs.
From: Virginia - A Guide to the Old Dominion State, 1940 Pg 213
Cabell Hall is still in use today however with the addition of the adjacent New Cabell Hall in the 1950's the building is now referred to as Old Cabell Hall. Further the Rouss Physical Laboratory is Rouss Hall and the mechanical laboratory is Cocke Hall.