Fiske Kimball

Sidney Fiske Kimball (1888 – 1955) was an American architect, architectural historian and museum director.

A pioneer in the field of architectural preservation in the United States, he played a leading part in the restoration of Monticello and Stratford Hall Plantation in Virginia.

This opportunity propelled his sister's career as the first Landscape Architecture Librarian at Harvard University.

In 1919, Kimball was appointed to head the newly formed department of art and architecture at the University of Virginia.

Built in 1935–1936, Shack Mountain is a Jefferson-style pavilion, like Monticello, that is considered Kimball's masterpiece.

Thomas Jefferson 's drawing of original front elevation of Monticello . Illustration in Fiske Kimball's Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic , 1922