You probably know the story: In 1895, fire gutted the single most famous academic building in America, the Rotunda that Thomas Jefferson designed to be the centerpiece of the University of Virginia campus. The university’s Board of Visitors chose a supremely talented architect, Stanford White, to oversee the Rotunda reconstruction. … Now … the university is debating another set of changes to the Rotunda and to the Lawn stretching out before it. The debate pits those who would restore as much as possible of Jefferson’s vision for the campus against those who say that g...