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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the University of Virginia’s Rotunda caught fire in 1895, longtime UVa employee Henry Martin sounded the alarm by performing one of his primary duties: ringing the university’s bell.

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 ...