"Those second floor lintels between the lally columns - you want they should be rabbetted?" A scene from Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse (1948) Starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy--> Maison Carree in Nimes, France

Virginia State Capitol

Villa Medici in Rome (1544)

Swannanoah in Virginia (1912)

Vernacular house in a Tennessee Springs Town (1855) - compare to a Palladian plan

Vernacular house in a Tennessee Springs Town (1855) - compare to a Palladian plan

Vernacular house in a Tennessee Springs Town (1855) - compare to a Palladian plan

Vernacular house in a Tennessee Springs Town (1855) - compare to a Palladian plan

Vernacular house in a Tennessee Springs Town (1855) - compare to a Palladian plan

Vernacular house in a Tennessee Springs Town (1855) - compare to a Palladian plan

Palladio's elevation and section of Villa Rotunda (1560)

Jefferson's anonymous entry for the White House competition looks like the Villa Rotunda with a glass roof (1791)

Plan of Versailles

Plan of DC

Plan of DC

Country Estate in Virginia by Williams & Dynerman

Country Estate in Virginia

Plan of Villa Lante

Plan of country estate in Virginia

Portraits of Jefferson and Cosway

Paris grain market by Marechal (1786)

Paris grain Market by Chenoweth (2014)

Formal inspiration from John Soane's dining room ceiling

Formal inspriation from architectural and art history

Winning Design