Brian McRoberts collection of Virginia State Capitol Materials, 1994-2002.

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Brian McRoberts collection of Virginia State Capitol Materials, 1994-2002.

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The collection, dated 1994-2002, includes McRoberts's drawings, papers, and correspondence as a Virginia Commonwealth University student. It also includes letters written by Dr. Charles Brownell and members of the McRoberts family. McRoberts's greatest scholarly contribution is the reconstruction of Thomas Jefferson's design for the great hall of the Virginia State Capitol. McRoberts published his drawings in the first issue of The Classicist (1995). McRoberts's drawings were used in several publications by Brownell, including a book titled, The Capital of Virginia-Landmark of American Architecture (2002). From December 1994 to June 1995, McRoberts cataloged hundreds of drawings by the architectural firm of Carneal and Johnston. However, both his written and computerized records have yet to be found. The only records that remain are several contact sheets with images of the drawings.

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Virginia Commonwealth University, VCU Libraries

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Virginia Commonwealth University, VCU Libraries

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Virginia Commonwealth University. Dept. of Art History

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Brownell, Charles E.

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The book, or catalogue, "The Making of Virginia Architecture", was published in 1992 and co-authored by Charles E. Brownell, Calder Loth, William M. S. Rasmussen, and Richard Guy Wilson. The genesis of the project occurred years earlier, when the authors concluded that Virginia's principal artistic achievement was architecture, and decided to write a catalogue that documented the range and variety of architecture in Virginia. The book was a companion to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibitio...

McRoberts, Brian P., d. 1995

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Brian P. McRoberts (d. 1995) was an architectural history student at Virginia Commonwealth University. He studied early American architecture with Dr. Charles Brownell and served as his undergraduate teaching assistant (1994-1995). In the fall of 1996, he would have been the first recipient of the Bess T. Brownell Assistantship in Architectural History. However, he died unexpectedly in the fall of 1995. In honor of McRoberts' memory, Dr. Brownell dedicated the Fourth Annual VCU Architectural Sym...

Virginia State Capitol (Richmond, Va.)

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