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| For other uses, see Monticello (disambiguation). | WIKI |
| MonticelloLocationAlbemarle County, near Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.Coordinates38xc2xb000xe2x80xb237.01xe2x80xb3N 78xc2xb027xe2x80xb208.28xe2x80xb3Wxefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf38.0102806xc2xb0N 78.4523000xc2xb0Wxefxbbxbf / 38.0102806; -78.4523000Coordinates: 38xc2xb000xe2x80xb237.01xe2x80xb3N 78xc2xb027xe2x80xb208.28xe2x80xb3Wxefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf38.0102806xc2xb0N 78.4523000xc2xb0Wxefxbbxbf / 38.0102806; -78.4523000Built1772ArchitectThomas JeffersonArchitectural style(s)Neoclassical, PalladianGoverning bodyThe Thomas Jefferson Foundation (TJF) UNESCO World Heritage SiteOfficial nameMonticello and the University of Virginia in CharlottesvilleTypeCulturalCriteriai, iv, viDesignated1987 (11th session)Referencexc2xa0no.442RegionEurope and North America U.S. National Register of Historic PlacesDesignatedOctober 15, 1966[1]Referencexc2xa0no.66000826 U.S. National Historic LandmarkDesignatedDecember 19, 1960[2] Virginia Landmarks RegisterDesignatedSeptember 9, 1969[3]Referencexc2xa0no.002-0050 Location of Monticello in Virginia | WIKI |
| Monticello and its reflection | WIKI |
| Monticello (/xcbx8cmxc9x92ntxc9xaaxcbx88txcax83xc9x9bloxcax8a/ MON-tih-CHEL-oh) was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, who began designing Monticello after inheriting land from his father at age 26. | WIKI |
| In 1987, Monticello and the nearby University of Virginia, also designed by Jefferson, were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. | WIKI |
| The current nickel, a United States coin, features a depiction of Monticello on its reverse side. | WIKI |
| Situated on the summit of an 850-foot (260xc2xa0m)-high peak in the Southwest Mountains south of the Rivanna Gap, the name Monticello derives from Italian meaning "little mountain". | WIKI |
| At Jefferson's direction, he was buried on the grounds, in an area now designated as the Monticello Cemetery. | WIKI |
| Work began on what historians would subsequently refer to as "the first Monticello" in 1768, on a plantation of 5,000 acres (2,000 hectares). | WIKI |
| After his wife's death in 1782, Jefferson left Monticello in 1784 to serve as Minister of the United States to France. | WIKI |
| [10] Monticello's large central hall and aligned windows were designed to allow a cooling air-current to pass through the house, and the octagonal cupola draws hot air up and out. | WIKI |
| Before Jefferson's death, Monticello had begun to show signs of disrepair. | WIKI |
| In the last few years of Jefferson's life, much went without repair in Monticello. | WIKI |
| The logo at Monticello's official website, hosted by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation | WIKI |
| After Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, his only official surviving daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph, inherited Monticello. | WIKI |
| In 1831, she sold Monticello to James Turner Barclay, a local apothecary. | WIKI |
| Levy's heirs argued over his estate, but their lawsuits were settled in 1879, when Uriah Levy's nephew, Jefferson Monroe Levy, a prominent New York lawyer, real estate and stock speculator (and later member of Congress), bought out the other heirs for $10,050, and took control of Monticello. | WIKI |
| Together, the Levys preserved Monticello for nearly 100 years. | WIKI |
| Monticello depicted on the reverse of the 1953 $2 bill. | WIKI |
| [16] Since that time, other restoration has been performed at Monticello. | WIKI |
| The Foundation operates Monticello and its grounds as a house museum and educational institution. | WIKI |
| Monticello is a National Historic Landmark. | WIKI |
| From 1989 to 1992, a team of architects from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) created a collection of measured drawings of Monticello. | WIKI |
| Much of Monticello's interior decoration reflects the personal ideas and ideals of Jefferson. | WIKI |
| As "larger than life" as Monticello seems, the house has approximately 11,000 square feet (1,000xc2xa0m2) of living space. | WIKI |
| In 2017 a room identified as Sally Hemings' quarters at Monticello, adjacent to Jefferson's bedroom, was discovered in an archeological excavation. | WIKI |
| This is part of the Mountaintop Project, which includes restorations in order to give a fuller account of the lives of both enslaved laborers and free families at Monticello. | WIKI |
| Mulberry Row was situated three hundred feet (100xc2xa0m) south of Monticello, with the quarters facing the Jefferson mansion. | WIKI |
| Plaque at Monticello about enslaved laborers | WIKI |
| By the time of Jefferson's death, some enslaved families had labored and lived for four generations at Monticello. | WIKI |
| Six families and their descendants were featured in the exhibit, Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty (January to October 2012) at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, which also examines Jefferson as an enslaver. | WIKI |
| Developed as a collaboration between the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Monticello, it is the first exhibit on the national mall to address these issues. | WIKI |
| In February 2012, Monticello opened a new outdoor exhibit on its grounds: Landscape of Slavery: Mulberry Row at Monticello, to convey more about the lives of the hundreds of enslaved laborers who lived and worked at the plantation. | WIKI |
| Further information: Thomas Jefferson and slavery xc2xa7xc2xa0Monticello slave life | WIKI |
| Plaque commemorating Monticello Graveyard, owned and operated separately by the Monticello Association | WIKI |
| Monticello Graveyard | WIKI |
| In addition to growing flowers for display and producing crops for eating, Jefferson used the gardens of Monticello for experimenting with different species. | WIKI |
| In recent decades, the TJF has created programs to more fully interpret the lives of enslaved people at Monticello. | WIKI |
| Beginning in 1993, researchers interviewed descendants of Monticello enslaved people for the Getting Word Project, a collection of oral history that provided much new insight into the lives of enslaved people at Monticello and their descendants. | WIKI |
| In the winter of 2000xe2x80x932001, the enslaved African burial ground at Monticello was discovered. | WIKI |
| In the fall of 2001, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation held a commemoration of the burial ground, in which the names of known enslaved people of Monticello were read aloud. | WIKI |
| In 2003 Monticello welcomed a reunion of descendants of Jefferson from both the Wayles's and Hemings's sides of the family. | WIKI |
| It was organized by the descendants, who have created a new group called the Monticello Community. | WIKI |
| In 2004, the trustees acquired Mountaintop Farm (also known locally as Patterson's or Brown's Mountain), the only property that overlooks Monticello. | WIKI |
| The officials at Monticello had long considered the property an eyesore, and planned to acquire it when it became available. | WIKI |
| Monticello was featured in Bob Vila's A&E Network production, Guide to Historic Homes of America,[41] in a tour which included Honeymoon Cottage and the Dome Room, which is open to the public during a limited number of tours each year. | WIKI |
| In 2014, Prestley Blake constructed a 10,000-square-foot replica of Monticello in Somers, Connecticut. | WIKI |
| The entrance pavilion of the Naval Academy Jewish Chapel at Annapolis is modeled on Monticello. | WIKI |
| Chamberlin Hall at Wilbraham & Monson Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, built in 1962 and modeled on Monticello, serves as the location of the Academy's Middle School. | WIKI |
| Completed in August 2015, Dallas Baptist University built one of the largest replicas of Monticello, including its entry halls and a dome room. | WIKI |
| Saint Paul's Baptist Church located at the corner of E Belt Boulevard and Hull Street Road in Richmond is modeled after Monticello. | WIKI |
| Pi Kappa Alpha's Memorial Headquarters, opened in 1988 is located in the TPC Southwind development in Memphis, Tennessee and was inspired by the architecture of Monticello. | WIKI |
| On April 13, 1956, the U.S. Post Office issued a postage stamp honoring Monticello. | WIKI |
| Monticello's image has appeared on U.S. currency and postage stamps. | WIKI |
| An image of the west front of Monticello by Felix Schlag has been featured on the reverse of the nickel minted since 1938 (with a brief interruption in 2004 and 2005, when designs of the Westward Journey series appeared instead). | WIKI |
| Monticello also appeared on the reverse of the two-dollar bill from 1928 to 1966, when the bill was discontinued. | WIKI |
| The current bill was introduced in 1976 and retains Jefferson's portrait on the obverse but replaced Monticello on the reverse with an engraved modified reproduction of John Trumbull's 1818 painting Declaration of Independence. | WIKI |
| The gift shop at Monticello hands out two-dollar bills as change. | WIKI |
| The 1994 commemorative Thomas Jefferson 250th Anniversary silver dollar features Monticello on the reverse. | WIKI |
| West Front of Monticello Vegetable Garden - 180 degrees The Visitors' Center Monticello facade and its reproduction on a nickel Play media A Nickel by Monticello Monticello, the day after a snowstorm In the dome room, wall detail Inside the Pavilion at the Vegetable Garden | WIKI |
| Monticello was the plantation home of Thomas Jefferson (1743xe2x80x931826), author of the American Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States. | UNESCO |
| Jeffersonxe2x80x99s Monticello and his Academical Village precinct are notable for the originality of their plans and designs and for the refinement of their proportions and dxc3xa9cor. | UNESCO |
| His house at Monticello, with its dome, porticos supported by Doric columns, and cornices and friezes derived from classical Roman buildings, and his Academical Village, with its Rotunda modeled on the Pantheon and its ten pavilions each offering a different lesson in the classical orders and architecture as drawn from published classical models, together invoke the ideals of ancient Rome regarding freedom, nobility, self-determination, and prosperity linked to education and agricultural values. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (i): Both Monticello and the University of Virginia reflect Jeffersonxe2x80x99s wide reading of classical and later works on architecture and design and also his careful study of the architecture of late 18th-century Europe. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (vi): Monticello and the key buildings of the University of Virginia are directly and materially associated with the ideas and ideals of Thomas Jefferson. | UNESCO |
| Both the University buildings and Monticello were directly inspired by principles derived from his deep knowledge of classical architecture and philosophy. | UNESCO |
| Within the boundaries of Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville are located all the elements necessary to understand and express the Outstanding Universal Value of the property, including, at Monticello, both the house and the core area of the estate, which preserves the housexe2x80x99s setting in the scenic Southwest Mountains in the Virginia Piedmont; and, at the University of Virginia, all the key buildings of Jeffersonxe2x80x99s Academical Village and its associated landscape features. | UNESCO |
| The house at Monticello is intact and unchanged beyond some mid 20th-century physical repairs, which include the insertion of steel beams to support the floors and the addition of temperature and humidity controls. | UNESCO |
| xe2x80x9cMonticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesvillexe2x80x9d is substantially authentic in terms of its forms and designs, materials and substance, and locations and settings, as well as, for the Universityxe2x80x99s Academical Village, its uses and functions. | UNESCO |
| The property owned by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello is largely part of the original tract of land owned by Jefferson. | UNESCO |
| Monticello was never greatly altered after his death. | UNESCO |
| The greatest threats to the property are commercial development in Monticelloxe2x80x99s extensive view shed and, for the Academical Village, relative humidity, pollution and invasive species. | UNESCO |
| Monticello is owned and administered by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., a private, non-profit organization. | UNESCO |
| Monticello and the University of Virginia Historic District (which includes the Academical Village and the Universityxe2x80x99s Rotunda) were designated by the Secretary of the Interior as National Historic Landmarks in 1960 and 1971, respectively. | UNESCO |
| The Thomas Jefferson Foundationxe2x80x99s express purpose is to preserve and maintain Monticello as a national memorial, and it has a staff of professionals to support this work. | UNESCO |
| There is nevertheless a strong cooperative and collaborative relationship between Monticello and the University of Virginia. | UNESCO |