James, my nephew, and his wife, Heather, took a little vacation before school started. They’re both teachers and love history. James is currently teaching world history in a high school. Last week they went to visit Monticello. Photos are shared by James and Heather. Thank you! (I visited it in the mid-1970’s, and you do NOT want to see my photos from my little Kodak!)
Let’s take a step into the fascinating and complex world of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop home in Charlottesville, Virginia. Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson—designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years. Its gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world. Jefferson, the third president of the United States, is pictured on the USA nickel, and Monticello is on the back.
Let’s take a little tour.
Origin: North America, Dimensions: tip to tip: 99 (39 in.)
Provenance: Thomas Jefferson; by gift to the University of Virginia; by loan to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation since 1949
In his magnum opus, Natural History: General and Particular, Count Buffon, one of the leading natural historians of the 18th century, argued that all life in the New World, particularly North America, was degenerate—weaker, smaller and feebler—than life in the Old World. Natural History was a best seller. Thomas Jefferson visited him in France and presented him the skin & skeleton of an American moose to debunk this theory. The American Moose is much bigger than the European.
Trees were perhaps Jefferson’s favorite plants, and he grew a wide variety at Monticello.
I hope you enjoyed our brief visit to Monticello.
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It’s a very beautiful home. And gosh, that oak tree is massive! I wonder how old it is…thank you, James, Heather, and of course, Carol, for sharing it!!
Please thank James and Heather for these super photos, and thank you for sharing them. All very interesting.
Good shots.
Oozing with history! Thanks for the tour. I really enjoyed it!
Well that is pretty cool. I don’t remember seeing much information about what is inside Monticello.
…this is a beautiful destination, I visited as a teenager!
wow! Great photos of Monticello home ~ thanks,
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I enjoyed this! Thanks for taking us along.
Amalia
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Great photos! So much to see and learn at Monticello.
Great pictures. The bed set up is unique.
What a brilliant place to visit. It sounds so interesting with a lot of history.
Fantastic photos!
Thank you for the cybertour.
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This is definitely a place to visit to learn about Colonial times.
James and Heather took some gorgeous pictures. Thank you so much for sharing and warm greetings from Montreal, Canada ❤️ 🇨🇦 😊
I’ve been to Monticello several times, but always in March or April. I have no interior photos (why am I thinking that indoor photography wasn’t permitted at the times I visited?) so I very much enjoyed your nephew/wife’s photos. Alana ramblinwitham
Yes, most museums and homes did not allow indoor photography until the advent of cell phones. Older cameras had to flash to make indoor pictures, which was very distracting and could even be harmful to some items.