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Hemings installed the finishing touch, the parlor entablature, or ceiling molding, in 1826 when Jefferson was near death.

It is there as rustication and entablature — there, too, on one of the city’s main churches, Santo Domingo de Guzmán.

There is an entablature of shingles resting on the board and batten siding, forming the interior walls.

Bas reliefs on the entablature feature important thinkers such as Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass.

Unlike most pillars of the period, the temple’s were not free-standing but demi-columns, 23 by 46 feet, engaged in a continuous curtain wall to support the weight of horizontal architectural detailing that composes the entablature.