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Sources consulted for the biography of:James Dinsmore (1771 or 1772–1830)
Primary Sources
- architectural drawing and floor plan of Montpelier attributed to Dinsmore in Thomas R. Blackburn Architectural Drawings Books, vol. 1, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia
- Dinsmore receipts and accounts in Massie Family Papers (1767–1993), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia
- Dinsmore correspondence and accounts in:
- Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (including quotation in Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, May 11, 1815)
- Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston
- Cocke Family Papers, 1725–1939, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Jefferson Papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Papers of the Proctor of the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Julian P. Boyd et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1950– )
- J. Jefferson Looney et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series (2004– )
- Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (1984– ), esp. volumes 1 and 2
- Frank Edgar Grizzard Jr., "Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University of Virginia, 1817–1828" (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1996)
- Albemarle County Will Book, 10:109, Library of Virginia
Secondary Sources
- Leonard Allison Morrison, The Earliest History and Genealogy . . . of the Dinsmoor-Dinsmore Family of Scotland, Ireland, and America . . . (1891), 15–16
- Richard Charles Cote, "The Architectural Workmen of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia" (Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1986)
- K. Edward Lay, "Charlottesville's Architectural Legacy," Magazine of Albemarle County History 46 (1988): 31–53
- K. Edward Lay, "Dinsmore and Neilson: Jefferson's Master Builders," Colonnade: The Newsjournal of the University of Virginia School of Architecture 6 (spring 1991): 9–13
- K. Edward Lay, The Architecture of Jefferson Country (2000), esp. 92–93, 96–98
Obituaries
- death notice in Charlottesville Virginia Advocate, May 14, 1830 (died "in the 59th year of his age")
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