"Architecture being one of the fine arts, and as such within the department of a professor of the college, according to the new arrangement, perhaps a spark may fall on some young subjects of natural taste, kindle up their genius, and produce a reformation in this elegant and useful art."
Notes on the State of Virginia
Jefferson, Thomas. <U>Thomas Jefferson</U>.
Ed. Merrill D. Peterson. Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States: New York, 1984. <a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JefVirg.html">Link</a> to UVA e-text edition. 