109 Rugby Road

From the National Register nomination

Built as a gymnasium; now classrooms. Neo-Classical Revival. Built 1893-94. Brick (stretcher bond); 2 stories above grade-level basement; pedimented gable roofs; 3-bay front; 2-story octastyle Corinthian portico. Rusticated ground story; molded terra cotta trim; masonry columns; wooden entablatures and pediments; grouped, round-arched and circular windows. Carpenter and Peebles of Norfolk, architects. An unusually handsome example of the Neo-Classical Revival, Fayerweather Hall now houses UVa's Department of Fine Arts.