University of Virginia Library

QUARTERS AND EQUIPMENT.

The School of Fine Arts occupies the building at the south end of West
Range, which has been specially adapted to its use. It comprises a lecture
and exhibition hall 35 by 55 feet, an architectural draughting room, a
studio for freehand drawing and painting, with dark rooms and offices. A
special fund for equipment given by Mr. McIntire has made generous provision
for casts, books, photographs, and lantern slides. The casts include
geometrical models, motives of ornamentation, architectural elements, elements
of the figure, and a number of full figures from the antique, as well
as fine modern figures. Beside the books on architectural history and on
building construction kept at the University Library an exceptional departmental
collection of works valuable for reference in architectural design
and detailing, is provided in direct connection with the draughting room.
Among the numerous important sets of folios are the Grands Prix de
Rome, Médailles des concours d'architecture, Monuments antiques, Fragments
antique, Edifices de Rome moderne, The Georgian Period, Work of
McKim, Mead and White, etc., etc. These are supplemented by some

three thousand photographs, and by the collection of five thousand lantern
slides, as well as by a number of envoi drawings by former holders
of the Rotch Travelling Scholarship.