The Roundabout, (sculpture).

The Roundabout, (sculpture).

Adams, Alice, 1930- , sculptor.

Kelly, Mary, landscape architect.

Bailey, Charles, architect.

Demas, Carl, architect.

Laucharoen, Prawat, 1941- , sculptor.

Palevsky, Gerald, engineer.

Kling Lindquist Partnership, architectural firm.

Environmental Engineering, engineering firm.

The Roundabout, (sculpture).

1992. Dedicated May 8, 1992.

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Concrete, flagstone, green, pink, & white granite, sandstone, with bronze paving tiles, and landscape plantings.

(On northeast section, on various bronze tiles:) Digitalis; Vinca; Dioscorea; Belladonna Atropa; Papaya Carica; L-O-E-A-dioscorides; Helleborus Niger; Sangwinaria Canadensis; Claviceps/purpurea; podophylum/petatum; colchicum/autumnale; Rauvolfia/serpentina; Hyoscyamus/Niger; papaver; physostigma/venenosum unsigned

The sculpture is symbolic of Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, where all the roads and paths are called roundabouts. The low curving walls of the various pathways define garden, thicket, terraced lawn, and earth mound. A green granite water wall is set into the east side of the central mound, its lower waterfall and pool facing the front door of the building. Stairways on either side lead to a flagstone path on top of the mound, and a bluestone seating wall curves around the horizontal granite slabs of the upper water wall. Water flows across these slabs and tumbles over the slanted tiered panel of the lower waterfall. In the northwest corner, green, pink and white granite form a paving in the shape of the great lawn at Monticello. Botanical images of plants used in past and present medical care are etched into bronze plates set into the paving. The plantings are the same as some of those found at Monticello.

Landscape -- Plant -- Digitalis

Landscape -- Plant -- Vinca

Landscape -- Plant -- Dioscorea

Landscape -- Plant -- Belladonna Atropa

Landscape -- Plant -- Papaya Carica

Landscape -- Plant -- Loea Dioscorides

Landscape -- Plant -- Helleborus

Landscape -- Plant -- Sangwinaria Canadensis

Landscape -- Plant -- Claviceps Purpurea

Landscape -- Plant -- Podophylum Petatum

Landscape -- Plant -- Colchicum Autumnale

Landscape -- Plant -- Rauvolfia Serpentina

Landscape -- Plant -- Hyoseyamus Niger

Landscape -- Plant -- Papaver

Landscape -- Plant -- Physostigma Venenosum

Landscape -- Garden

Allegory -- Place -- Monticello

Architecture -- Detail -- Door

Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Administered by Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107

Located Thomas Jefferson University, Bleumle Life Sciences Building, northeast corner, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.

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