Old Cabell Hall (UVA)

Before the Rotunda had a bookend, it had a patron. Joseph C. Cabell spent years in the Virginia legislature doing the unglamorous work — votes, budget arguments, the grinding political maintenance that kept Jefferson's university from dying on paper. The building at the south end of the Lawn carries his name because that kind of work is how institutions actually get built.

Stanford White designed it, completed and dedicated in 1898. Since 1951 it has housed the Department of Music and the university's principal concert hall. The auditorium seats 851 and runs more than 200 public performances a year. Above the stage hangs a copy of Raphael's *School of Athens*, completed in 1900 by George W. Breck and given anonymously by an alumnus two years later — a replacement for the copy lost when the Rotunda burned in 1895. Andrew Carnegie gave the Skinner Organ in 1906; it was dedicated during a recital by Samuel Baldwin on March 18, 1907.

Go when something is on. The room was built to hold sound and attention, and it still does.