Monticello, meaning little mountain in Italian, sits on a plantation just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, designed and rebuilt in stages over roughly forty years beginning in 1769 by the American statesman Thomas Jefferson as his own home. Trained largely through his own study of European architectural treatises, Jefferson adapted Neoclassical and Palladian principles, most visibly in the house's signature red brick dome, the first to crown a private residence in the United States, and its symmetrical plan organized around a central hall. The house incorporated numerous mechanical inventions and space-saving devices of Jefferson's own design, including a dumbwaiter and a compact staircase, and the surrounding plantation was worked by enslaved laborers whose lives and labor are now a central part of how the site is interpreted. Monticello and the nearby University of Virginia, also designed by Jefferson, were jointly designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
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Building Type
Building Type (category) Building Type (category) Partially Attested
Completed YearGenerally completed by 1809; Jefferson kept modifying it until 1826. Classification
Standing Status Building Type LocationCharlottesville, Virginia, United States 1 Connections
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- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Monticello, the same subject.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Chile, located there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: United States, located there.
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Lead section, first sentence
Monticello was the primary residence and plantation of Thomas Jefferson
Lead section, location sentence
Located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Piedmont region
Lead section, completion sentence
Although generally completed by 1809, Jefferson continued work on Monticello until his death in 1826.
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Monticello, meaning little mountain in Italian, sits on a plantation just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, designed and rebuilt in stages over roughly forty years beginning in 1769 by the American statesman Thomas Jefferson as his own home. Trained largely through his own study of European architectural treatises, Jefferson adapted Neoclassical and Palladian principles, most visibly in the house's signature red brick dome, the first to crown a private residence in the United States, and its symmetrical plan organized around a central hall. The house incorporated numerous mechanical inventions and space-saving devices of Jefferson's own design, including a dumbwaiter and a compact staircase, and the surrounding plantation was worked by enslaved laborers whose lives and labor are now a central part of how the site is interpreted. Monticello and the nearby University of Virginia, also designed by Jefferson, were jointly designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
- In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Neoclassical, Palladian
- In Style: Palladian Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Neoclassical, Palladian
Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia categories
Category:Brick buildings and structures in Virginia
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