UVA Workers Unearth Early Thomas Jefferson Chemistry Lab
Grant Suneson
6:59 PM, Oct 15, 2015
... "I was laying on my back looking up inside this little space. I saw that there was a piece of cut stone, which is very unusual to have in this location," Matt Schiedt told WCAV.
That cut stone turned out to be part of a chemistry lab dating back to the 1820s, and it was at least partially designed by Thomas Jefferson ...
But the space was abandoned in the 1840s so a more advanced chemistry lab could be built to keep up with the advance of technology. It was bricked up and forgotten about until now.
But that brick may have inadvertently saved the historical laboratory. The solid exterior prevented it from being destroyed by a fire in 1895 and shielded it from renovations in the 1970s ...
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