Show nt co V e ilkiv ra N 1 ii sr v 0 g its X A i 3 1011 R are M IVA w T 4 ap A 1 I 1 jefferson Jed creon la Is the first american who has consulted consult e d the fi alne ne arts to know how he should shelter himself from rom the weather marquis Blar quis do Chastel lux IM THOMAS JE JEFFER FFERSON t memorial foundation Is raising a million dollars by popular subscription to acquire mon and maintain it as a national memorial to the man whose hand band put the declaration of independence pen dence on paper the dIfficult difficulties les that have heretofore prevented the acquisition of jeffersons virginia home as a permanent memorial have been o overcome jefferson M levy present owner of monticello whose family has held title to the property since his uncle commodore uriah P levy of the united states navy bought it in 1833 seven years after jeffersons death has always been an ardent admirer of the author of the declaration of independence and was loath to part with mon cicello tl ti cello patriotic motives finally influenced fluen ced him to enter into nn an agreement with the memorial foundation monticello was jeffersons home from 1770 till his death july 4 1820 and therefore famous but with its passage out of the possession of the jefferson family a little wore than a century ago it was all but forgotten by the public not completely however because in 1805 the legality ot of the will of commodore uriah phillips levy leaving the estate to the federal or to the state government for use as an agricultural college or to hebrew charity organizations was contested in the courts by his family in 1912 1012 a bill was introduced in congress by representative martla martin W littleton providing for the purchase of monticello by the nation although the time was propitious because the democratic party had just returned to power the bill was not passed nor was it in 1917 when it was revived jefferson as every good american knows or should know was third president of the united states 1801 09 he was born in virginia april 13 1743 lie ile was graduated from william and mary college in 1702 1762 and admitted to the bar in 1707 ile he was member of the continental congress 1775 1770 member of tile committee jefferson adams sherman franklin and ltv ingston t to 0 draft the declaration of independence one of the signers a leading member of the virginia legislature 1776 governor of virginia 1770 member of congress 1783 minister to france 1784 1789 secretary ot of state 1794 undo washington vice president 1797 1801 in the administration of john adams founder of the university of virginia married 1772 martha wales skelton died july 4 1820 2826 at monticello left one son and five daughters while president jefferson pursued a vigorous policy of economy hence the phrase jeffersonian Jeffers onlan simplicity he made many political removals from office the beginning of the sp spoils system of jacksons time tb the principal events of GIs administration were these the war against tripoli because of piracy against american vessels the louisiana purchase from france the passage of the twelfth amendment to the constitution the duel between hamilton and burr and burrs trial for treason the lewis and dark clark expedition pikes expedition to the rocky mountains eng lands assertion of the right to search american vessels for british deserters the embargo act Ful tons tong clermont in regular service between new york and albany an aa act prohibiting the slave trade wr t 4 0 foj ZA 0 I 1 A r monticello Is peculiarly fitted to be a jefferson shrine because he himself planned and built the mansion its location Is about three miles from charlotte the seat of the university of virginia which jefferson JelTe raon founded on every side from the spot which jefferson selected as the site of his home stretch great reaches of some of the most beautiful country in the united states the site bite of 0 jeffersons birthplace shadwell c Is only a 8 short hort distance away he himself selected the site bite for his mountain home drew the designs and plans for the house bouse selected the stone and timber used in the structure looked after the construction of the brick and he nails made by his own servants devised advanced and ingenious contrivances for comfort and convenience designed the decoration of the interior and personally selected the furill aings m nd it ornaments end and not only planned but gave personal supervision to the laying out of the various buildings on the estate the gardens the walks and the roadways work was begun on the house in 1764 when shadwell chadwell gh adwell was destroyed by fire in 1770 monticello was far enough completed for the family to move in two years later he brought hla his bride marths martha wayles skelton there although a greater part of the house bouse was still unfinished indeed throughout his life monticello continued in minor ways as his biographer raynor puts it to 0 o be in a state of almost constant edification and re edification in 1803 there were still rooms to be plastered in 1808 the main house itself might le be said to be completed but long after that he be experimented with garden temples and other smaller buildings though architecture was only a hobby with jefferson today he Is acclaimed a great architect anyway monticello Is not the he only example of his work he be Is responsible for the structure of several other plantation houses bouses in the neighborhood and booi took great delight during his last years in 10 planning the buildings of the university of virginia and overseeing their construction the exterior of monticello little mountain Is in the doric order of architecture the interior Is in the ionic style A portico the full height of the house with stone pillars and steps projects 25 feet it Is a brick mansion by feet with white pillars cornices cornicks cor nices and balustrades our bur mounted by a dome standing in the midst of a lawn overlooking river woodlands and fertile valley with a view of mountains to the west and of long extending coastal plains to th alks 0 east the appearance appearance Is of one story and entering the hall one Is still deceived for jefferson disliked staircases jo to such an extent that he shut them all up in closets the hall ball shows only a gallery on which the beil bedrooms rooms open in the dome itself jefferson planned a billiard room but a law was passed by the state before it was completed forbidding the game and so it was left in en cn unfinished state the wings of the house end in octagonal projections the northern one containing the dining room ten tea room and two guest rooms the southern forming jeffersons private suite sitting room library and bedroom under the dome on the west is the great drawing room famous for its flooring of native woods and its pillared portico there were acres in the estate more Tio ijo table of the architectural features of the house Is the hiding away of all signs of kitchen laundry stable and the many workshops necessary on a plantation of nf that period when almost every article in dally daily use was manufactured on the estate by servants and slaves the sharp declivity of the mountain made it possible to have these offices all nt at a lower level than the house A tunnel from the basement leads right and left to one story pavilions used by the slaves by this contrivance dishwashers cooks butlers maids troops troop 3 of slaves with wood for fires cans of 0 f ashes palls of hot or cold water did their work without disturbing the tranquillity of the family and their guests an oddity contrived by jefferson Is a dumb waiter for hoisting wine from the cellar with a capacity of but one bottle monticello undoubtedly the finest mansion in that section of virginia virgin a cost its owner according to his account books about the ornamental stone was brought fro from in philadelphia to richmond by water and hauled from richmond in carts when jefferson in 1809 completed his second term as president he hastened to monticello there he hoped to find privacy freedom and leisure in a measure perhaps he r realized them he enjoyed society but he did not relish the intrusion of lille idle curt curious fellow countrymen who vilio came to stare and finger capt edmund baker for 20 years jeffersons overseer and man of bustness business said that jeffersons visitors ate him out of house and home anyway on jeffersons death the estate was so impoverished that his heirs were compelled to part with monticello |