Monticello
Thomas Jefferson's neoclassical house and plantation above Charlottesville, a World Heritage site.
Thomas Jefferson began building on his mountaintop in 1769 and kept rebuilding for four decades, demolishing and enlarging the house after his years in France. The result is a low brick villa with a Doric portico and a dome over the parlour, drawn from Palladio and from French neoclassical planning. Jefferson filled it with his own devices, among them the entrance hall clock, alcove beds, a revolving bookstand and dumbwaiters set into the dining room chimneypiece.
Monticello was a working plantation, and more than 400 people were enslaved there during Jefferson's lifetime. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation presents that history directly: the Slavery at Monticello tour follows Mulberry Row, the restored dwellings and workshops are open, and an exhibition in the South Wing tells the story of Sally Hemings and her family. Research with descendant families continues through the Getting Word oral history project. The house and the nearby University of Virginia were inscribed by UNESCO in 1987.
Highlights
- Domed parlour and Jefferson's cabinet, library and alcove bed
- Mulberry Row, the plantation's street of workshops and dwellings
- South Wing exhibition on the life of Sally Hemings
- Terraced vegetable garden and Jefferson family graveyard
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