A Guide to the Travis C. McDonald Papers, 1982-2023
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 53913
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Preferred Citation
Travis C. McDonald papers, 1982-2023. Accession 53913. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Travis C. McDonald.
Biographical Information
Travis C. McDonald was the Director of Architectural Restoration at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest in Bedford County, Virginia.
Scope and Content
Papers, 1982-2023, of Travis C. McDonald, Director of Architectural Restoration at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, located in Bedford County, Virginia. Records consist of materials written by McDonald about Poplar Forest and other aspects of historic preservation and historic sites. Also contains articles, reports, and other documents written by other authors and collected by McDonald regarding historic preservation and historic preservation sites.
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Contents List
Papers, 1991-2023, of Travis C. McDonald, Director of Architectural Restoration at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, which is located in Bedford County, Virginia. Records consist of materials published by the Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest, including material written by McDonald; articles written about Poplar Forest by McDonald and published in other sources; and articles written about Poplar Forest by other authors. Also contains articles written by McDonald regarding other aspects of historic preservation and other historic preservation sites.
- Box 1 Folder 1
Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest: A Private Place , 2002, reprinted 2010
- Box 1 Folder 2
Notes on the State of Poplar Forest , volumes I and II, 1991, 1994
- Box 1 Folder 3
Notes on the State of Poplar Forest , Spring-Fall, 2020; Spring-Fall, 2022; Spring 2023
- Box 1 Folder 4
Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest flyer
- Folder 5 Box 1
Travis McDonald, Restoration Highlights and Summary, February 2014
- Box 1 Folder 6
Travis McDonald, Enslaved Workers: Docent Training, 20 September 2016
- Box 1 Folder 7
Travis McDonald, Poplar Forest Restoration Highlights Chronology, 2023
- Box 1 Folder 8
Travis McDonald, Significant Aspects of the Design and Restoration of Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, no date
- Box 1 Folder 9
Travis McDonald, "The Brickwork at Poplar Forest: Mr Jefferson Builds His Dream House " in APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology , volume XXVII, no. 1-2, 1996
- Box 1 Folder 10
Travis McDonald, "Poplar Forest: A Most Palladian Villa " in Arris:Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians , volume 28, 2017
- Box 1 Folder 11
Travis McDonald, "Restoring Poplar Forest: Jefferson's Retirement Masterpiece " in Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust , Winter 2002-2003
- Box 1 Folder 12
Travis McDonald, "Constructing Optimism: Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest " in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture , volume VIII, 2000
- Box 1 Folder 13
Travis McDonald, "Rat Housing in Middle Virginia: The Diffusion of Everyday Life " in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture , volume X, 2005
- Box 1 Folder 14
Travis McDonald, "Poplar Forest: Jefferson and Palladio in Spiritual Agreement " in Palladiana: Journal of Center for Palladian Studies in America , Fall 2018
- Box 1 Folder 15
Travis McDonald, "Poplar Forest: A Masterpiece Rediscovered " in Virginia Cavalcade , Winter 1993
- Box 1 Folder 16
Travis McDonald, "Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Privacy Restored " in Virginia Cavalcade , Winter 2002
- Box 1 Folder 17
Travis McDonald, "The Private Villa Retreat of Thomas Jefferson " in White House History , number 18, Spring 2006
- Box 1 Folder 18
Travis McDonald, "Restoration, Re-Restoration and Real History: Trends and Issues in Historic House Museums " in Historic Preservation Forum , volume 7, number 6, November-December 1993
- Box 1 Folder 19
Travis McDonald, "Jefferson Builder " in Jefferson and Palladio: Constructing a New World , 2015
- Box 1 Folder 20
Travis McDonald, "Jefferson Improves on Palladio " in Palladiana: Journal of Center for Palladian Studies in America , Spring 2023
- Box 1 Folder 21
Travis McDonald, "Understanding Old Buildings: The Process of Architectural Investigation " in Preservation Briefs 35, 1997
- Box 1 Folder 22
Travis McDonald, "Tom the Builder " in University of Virginia , Spring 2018
- Box 1 Folder 23
Travis McDonald, "The East and West Wings of the White House: History in Architecture and Building " in White House History , number 29, Spring 2011
- Box 1 Folder 24
Wayne Fields, "Jefferson's Second Home " in American Heritage , April 1993
- Box 1 Folder 25
Sandy Hevener, "A House: Poplar Forest " in Blue Ridge Country , November-December 2005
- Box 1 Folder 26
Will Holloway, "Jefferson Comes Alive " in Clem Labine's Period Homes , November 2005
- Box 1 Folder 27
Jane Brown Gillette, "Mr. Jefferson's Retreat " in Historic Preservation , July-August 1992
- Box 1 Folder 28
Dale Mackenzie Brown, "Jefferson's Other Home " in House Beautiful , December 1997
- Box 1 Folder 29
Vernon Mays, "A Villa Through Time: Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest " in Inform no. 2, 1997
- Box 1 Folder 30
Janet Martin, "Poplar Forest: In Search of the Private Thomas Jefferson " in University of Virginia Alumni News , October 1991
- Box 1 Folder 31
J. Michael Welton, "Jefferson's Retreat Restored " in Virginia Living , April 2023
- Box 1 Folder 32
Kathryn Hensley, "Jefferson's Poplar Forest: A Phoenix Rises from the Ashes " in Wood Design and Building , number 10, Winter 1999-2000
- Box 1 Folder 33
"Thomas Jefferson Buildings, Virginia " in World Heritage in the United States of America: The U.S. Tentative List , 2008
Papers, 1982-2009, collected by Travis C. McDonald consisting of articles, appendices, brochures, emails, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, reports, theses, slides and other documents documenting historic preservation and historic preservation sites in Virginia.
- Boxes 2-3
Subseries 1: Historic buildings 1985-20092 boxes
- Box 2 Folder 1
Battersea papers
- Box 2
Christopher V. Novelli, "Battersea Appendices, " volume I, October 2005
- Box 2
Christopher V. Novelli, "Battersea Appendices, " volume II, October 2005
- Box 2 Folder 2
Clifton Ellis, "The Mansion House at Berry Hill Plantation: Architecture and the Changing Nature of Slavery in Antebellum Virginia " in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture , volume XIII, 2006
- Box 2 Folder 3
Castle Hill papers
- Box 2 Folder 4
Mark R. Wenger, Edward Chappell, and Willie Graham, Eppington: An Architectural History , 15 May 1995
- Box 2 Folder 5
Mesick-Cohen-Wilson-Baker, Architects, "Conditions Survey and Recommendations for the Jefferson Addition at the Farmington Country Club, " September 2000Located in Oversize Box 71
- Box 3 Folder 1
"A Preliminary Outline of the History of the Governor's Mansion, " 15 July 1987
- Box 3 Folder 2
Vernon Mays, "A Heritage Regained at the Executive Mansion, " in Inform: Architecture and Design in the Mid-Atlantic , number 1, 2000
- Box 3 Folder 3
Edward A. Chappell, "Reconsidered Splendor: The Palace Addition of 1751. A Report to the Program Planning and Review Committee, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, " September 1985
- Box 3 Folder 4
Kenmore papers
- Box 3 Folder 5
Maymont papers
- Box 3 Folder 6
Calder Loth, "Menokin: Virginia's Most Unusual Preservation Adventure, " in Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine , 16 November 2006
- Box 3
Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest Restoration Field School, "Historic Structures Investigation Report: Montezuma, Norwood, Virginia, " 2009
- Box 3 Folder 7
Monumental Church papers
- Box 3 Folder 8
Joseph Manca, George Washington's Eye: Architecture and Landscape at Mount Vernon , book manuscript, ca. 2012
- Box 3 Folder 9
Mount Vernon papers
- Box 3 Folder 10
Carl R. Lounsbury, "An Elegant and Commodious Building: William Buckland and the Design of the Prince William Courthouse, " in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians , volume 46, number 3, September 1987
- Box 3 Folder 11
Redlands papers
- Box 3 Folder 12
Soldier's Joy and Cherry Hill papers
- Box 3 Folder 11
Michael J. Pulice, "The Log Outbuilding at Solitude: An Architectural and Archaeological Investigation of Virginia Tech's Second Oldest Building, " Master's thesis, Virginia Tech, May 2000
- Box 3 Folder 13
Spring Dale papers
- Box 3 Folder 14
"An Architectural Study of the Buildings at Sully "
- Box 3 Folder 15
Robert P. Hilldrup, "The Mansion " in Upper Brandon , 1987
- Box 3 Folder 16
White House of the Confederacy papers
- Box 2 Folder 1
- Box 4
Subseries 2: Conferences, seminars, articles, and papers 1982-20041 box
- Box 4 Folder 1
"Vernacular Architecture Forum: 1988 Annual Meeting Staunton, Virginia, " 1988
- Box 4 Folder 2
"The Early Architecture of Tidewater Virginia: Twenty-third Annual Vernacular Architecture Forum Conference-Williamsburg, Virginia, " 1988
- Box 4 Folder 3
Brochure for "Domestic Architecture in Colonial Virginia, " Stratford Hall Plantation Architectural History Seminar, 1-4 November 2001
- Box 4 Folder 4
S. Allen Chambers, "Of the Best Quality: Buckingham Slate " in Virginia Cavalcade , Spring 1989
- Box 4 Folder 5
S. Allen Chambers, "William Lawrence Bottomley in West Virginia " in Arris , volume 10, 1999
- Box 4
Heather A. Foster, "Wallpaper in Richmond, Virginia, 1785-1908 " Master's thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University, May 2000
- Box 4 Folder 6
Willie Graham, "Preindustrial Framing in the Chesapeake " in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture , volume 9, 2003
- Box 4 Folder 7
Gardiner Hallock, "Pise Construction in Early Nineteenth-Century Virginia " in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture , volume 11, 2004
- Box 4 Folder 8
Donald W. Linebaugh, "All the Annoyances adn Inconveniences of the Country: Environmental Factors in the Deveolopmen of Outbuildings in the Colonial Chesapeake " in Winterthur Portfolio , volume 29, number 1, Spring 1994
- Box 4 Folder 9
William M. S. Rasmussen, "Designers, Builders, and Architectural Traditions in Colonial Virginia " in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography , April 1982
- Box 4 Folder 10
Camille Wells, "Dower Play/Power Play: Menokin and the Ordeal of Elite House Building in Colonial Virginia " in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture , volume 9, 2003
- Box 4 Folder 11
Camille Wells, "The Eighteenth-Century Landscape of Virginia's Northern Neck " in Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine , volume XXXVII, December 1987
- Box 4 Folder 12
Camille Wells, "The Planter's Prospect: Houses, Outbuildings, and Rural Landscapes in Eighteenth-Century Virginia " in Winterthur Portfolio , volume 28, number 1, Spring 1993
- Box 4 Folder 13
The Iron Worker , volume XXVI, number 2, Spring 1962
- Box 4 Folder 14
APVA Preservation Virginia brochure, "Discover Virginia: A Guide to Virginia's Historic Properties, " 2007
- Box 4 Folder 15
Jamestown papers, photographs
- Box 4 Folder 16
Williamsburg papers (folder 1 of 2)
- Box 4 Folder 17
Williamsburg papers (folder 2 of 2)
- Box 4 Folder 18
Orders of Robert Mills
- Box 4 Folder 19
Architectural history reading list: American Regions and Regionalism, 2006
- Box 4 Folder 1