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Charlottesville, Virginia, is encumbered by the Jeffersonian tradition,'' states Miami-based architect Neal R. Deputy. Certainly, this university town has become inextricably linked with Thomas Jefferson's romantic neo-Classicism. With red brick, carved wood moldings, and seamed metal roofs, Monticello has influenced much of the architecture built in Charlottesville during the past 150 years. But Deputy sees a different city: ``Charlottesville grew up around the railroads. Its rural and industrial past is often overlooked,'' he says.
When Deputy's client hired him to...