Thomas Jefferson

"" (Figure 4) Barboursville embodied the next generation of Jeffersonian ideals in its form, function, and in James Barbour's lifestyle.
             Barboursville's architecture symbolized Jeffersonian principles. Barboursville represented "the romantic image of Jeffersonian ideal, a compact but architecturally sophisticated, classical villa in a carefully contrived landscape setting."" Jefferson sent James Barbour a draft in 1817 for his ideal residence and it is assumed that Barbour built his home exactly according to Jefferson's plan. A "dome proposed by Thomas Jefferson was never built, otherwise the structure adhered closely to Thomas Jefferson's designs."" Barbour trusted Jefferson's architectural opinion and Jefferson "advised James Barbour to send to him the workmen who would build this house so that they could see [Monticello] and received such verbal explanations as might facilitate their labours.- In compliance with Jefferson's request, Barbour sent Edward Ancel, brickmason, and James Bradley, carpenter to Jefferson's home so that they could be trained to construct his house according to Jefferson's style. At its completion in 1821, Barboursville was the largest and finest residence in its region, and the only building in Orange County that was designed by Thomas Jefferson. .
             The Barboursville mansion was centered on five thousand acres of rolling southwest mountains of Orange and Albemarle Counties in Virginia. As Thomas Jefferson, James Barbour was a Virginian exceptionalist and in "describing this country, James Barbour declared in 1834 that there was no spot on earth more healthy.- The Barbour mansion was at the .
             "center of a large complex, with outbuildings, family cemetery and gardens all geometrically laid out on axis with the house in the complex was all buildings necessary for running a large plantation, a dairy, smokehouse, icehouse, slave quarters, storehouses, shops for plantation craftsmen and a mill.