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- Jefferson was one of America’s first and finest architects and he created, rebuilt, and revised the house throughout his long life. No president’s home than Jefferson's Monticello better reflects the personality of its owner. Jefferson, a true Renaissance man, was a giant among the Founding Fathers.
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1 day ago · Introduction. Monticello, the iconic Virginia plantation designed and inhabited by Thomas Jefferson, stands as a microcosm of early American history in all its ambition, ingenuity, and moral contradictions. As the third U.S. president and author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson helped define America‘s founding ideals.
- Little Mountain
- The First Monticello
- The Second Monticello
Jefferson inherited sizable property in Albemarle County, Virginia, from his father, Peter Jefferson, who along with Joshua Fry created the most accurate map of Virginia of their time. In May 1768, the twenty-five-year-old Thomas Jefferson directed the leveling of the already gentle top of a 868-foot-high mountain, where he intended to build his ho...
As early as 1790, Jefferson began planning revisions for his Albemarle County home, based in part on what he had observed in France. In 1796, walls of the original home were knocked down to make room for an expansion that would essentially double the floorplan of the house. The new plan called for a hallway connecting the older rooms to a new set o...
Among the many French elements that Jefferson incorporated into the second Monticello, the most dramatic was the dome placed over the already-existing Parlor, making it the first American home with such a feature. He crafted the building to give the appearance -- as he had seen at the Hotel de Salm -- that the three-story building was only one stor...
Oct 3, 2023 · But he was much more. Jefferson was a true Renaissance man, a brilliant polymath with an eclectic and dizzying array of interests. Thomas Jefferson. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello) VIRGINIA: MONTICELLO. Historic Home With a View.
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Monticello sits atop a lofty hill in Albemarle County, Virginia, not far from the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson, its creator and most prominent resident, who spent more than four decades...
Dec 6, 2023 · Rather than place his plantation house along the bank of a river—as was the norm for Virginia’s landed gentry during the eighteenth century—Jefferson decided instead to place his home, which he named Monticello (Italian for “little mountain”) atop a solitary hill just outside Charlottesville, Virginia.
Jefferson was one of America’s first and finest architects and he created, rebuilt, and revised the house throughout his long life. No president’s home than Jefferson's Monticello better reflects the personality of its owner. Jefferson, a true Renaissance man, was a giant among the Founding Fathers.
Jefferson designed Monticello after ancient and Renaissance models, and in particular after the work of Italian architect Andrea Palladio. In location—a frontier mountaintop—and in design—a Renaissance villa—Monticello was intentionally a far cry from the other American homes of its day.
