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Highlights Tour. This 45-minute guided experience includes first floor spaces in Thomas Jefferson’s home, the West Lawn, and the South Wing. You’ll learn about Jefferson and his vision for America, the realities of slavery on the Monticello plantation, and the mountaintop’s iconic architecture. This popular pass includes access to our ...
A GIS database of the trees, woody shrubs and perennial plants at Monticello. Monticello's gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world. Monticello's gardens served as a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental ...
Uriah Levy's first view of Monticello -- eight years after Jefferson's death -- was dismaying. Upon learning that it was for sale, he decided to buy it and preserve it for the nation. What he acquired was 218 acres of overgrown fields surrounding a dilapidated, almost empty house, for the sum of $2,700. Levy promptly hired Joel Wheeler as ...
Monticello currently extends this offer to undergraduate and graduate students from these two local educational institutions. Military Discounts Year-round free admission for active-duty military personnel and discounts for veterans are available for select tours and tickets.
ADDRESS: 931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway Charlottesville, VA 22902 GENERAL INFORMATION: (434) 984-9800
The Great Clock. One of Monticello's most memorable features is the Great Clock, designed by Jefferson, built by Peter Spruck in 1792, and fully functional today. The clock, with both an interior and exterior face, dictated the schedule of the entire plantation, inside the building and out. On the outside wall, the clock has only an hour hand ...
Monticello. 7,232 reviews. #3 of 90 things to do in Charlottesville. Historic SitesGardens. Closed now. 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM. Write a review. About. Monticello and its many historical rooms, gadgets, furniture, buildings, and artifacts tell us a lot about Thomas Jefferson, the president who built it and lived there.
