<p>When is the dome going to be painted white?</p>
<p>Whenever they feel like it. The Rotunda renovations have been a WIP for a couple years now.</p>
<p>When the rain stops . . . . It has been a very wet spring and summer in C’ville.</p>
<p>Some people want it to stay copper. It’s the newest beige vs while columns argument waiting to happen…</p>
<p>Yeah I noticed the beige columns, they are painting them all that color?</p>
<p>When we were there they told us that no way paint could have been made that white back in Jefferson’s day and that the beige columns you see are the original color. They said they only plan to leave those few columns beige and the rest will be the white b/c the white is what everyone is used to.</p>
<p>It will be repainted in the fall. I was with Dean Groves on this one, I love the copper dome. They could have sealed it to avoid the oxidation that would have impacted the rest of the structure.</p>
<p><a href=“UVA Rotunda Roof Painting Delayed until Fall | UVA Today”>http://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-rotunda-roof-painting-delayed-until-fall</a></p>
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