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Name: The Art and Science of Historic Plaster and Plastering Craft
Start: 2018-01-27T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2018-01-27T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Poplar Forest

An interior doorway at Poplar Forest with freshly-restored wood trim surrounding the opening.

The exterior front window, an element of Thomas Jefferson architecture at Poplar Forest, is seen in detail.

“Jefferson’s design of Poplar Forest as a villa grew out of his personal program of ideological goals. In giving shape to his architectural and ideological ideals, Jefferson gave shape to universal human concerns as well … From the bright, perfectly proportioned middle room of Poplar Forest, described as 'the ideal of human reason rendered in space,' and outward into the landscape, the site reflects the Age of Reason’s debate concerning man’s role in nature and, conversely, nature’s impact on man.” —Travis MacDonald, Poplar Forest’s Director of Architectural Restoration, “The Universal Significance of Jefferson’s Architecture”