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son himself was the leading architect of the period and could express his ideas through his own designs for private and public buildings. After the War of Independence Jefferson became ambassador to France where he was introduced to the new Neoclassical style that took ancient Rome and Greece as its inspirations and fulfilled Jefferson's "search for an architecture which would symbolize the values of the newly established republic" (Watkin 369). His first public building was the Virginia

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