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What’s new under the roof? At Pavilion VIII, it is another roof. University of Virginia employees performing a renovation of Pavilion VIII found physical evidence of a roof designed by the pavilion’s second resident, Charles Bonnycastle, a professor of natural philosophy and mathematics. (The pavilion's first resident was mathematics professor Thomas Hewitt Key.) Project manager James Zehmer said the pavilion had originally been built with a Thomas Jefferson-designed serrated roof to give the building a flat-roof appearance. But Jefferson’s serrated roof leaked.