The Range is part of the original grounds of the University of Virginia as designed by Thomas Jefferson. The Range buildings run parallel to and face away from The Lawn, and are separated from the Lawn by a series of ten gardens (five per side). Website Virginia. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The West Lawn in snow, 1914. ...
There are six "hotels" on the Range, three on each side. Originally used as dining facilities, the hotels today fill a variety of purposes, including administrative office space, home of The Virginia Quarterly Review, home to the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, and a reception hall. The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society is the oldest continually existing collegiate debating society in North America. ...
The Range dorm rooms serve as graduate student housing. They are furnished identically to undergraduate Lawn rooms. Previous well-known Range residents include Edgar Allan Poe (13 West Range) and Woodrow Wilson (33 West Range). During his residence in 13 West Range, Poe etched his initials into a pane of window glass -- a pane that has since been shattered. Visitors to the West Range can peer inside Poe's room, which is furnished in the style of his era, and listen to a brief recording that describes Poe's time at the University. This daguerreotype of Poe was taken less than a year before his death at the age of 40. ... Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). ...
The Peninsular Ranges are a group of mountain ranges which stretch 1500 km (900 miles) from southern California in the United States to the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula; they are part of the North American Coast Ranges that run along the Pacific coast from Alaska to Mexico.
On the coast side of the ranges, the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion covers the northern portion of the range, in southern California and northern Baja California.
It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the east by the Peninsular Ranges.
To the north of the Transverse ranges are the Central Coast Ranges, The Central Valley, and the Tehachapi Mountains, which separate the Central Valley from the Mojave Desert to the east, and link the Transverse ranges to the Sierra Nevada.
A number of densely populated coastal plains and interior valleys lie between the mountain ranges, including the Oxnard Plain of coastal Ventura County, the Santa Clarita Valley north of Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, which is mostly included in the City of Los Angeles.
The ranges are part of the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion, but the eastern ends of the range touch two desert ecoregions, the Mojave desert ecoregion, and the Sonoran desert ecoregion, which includes the California's low deserts.
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