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Monticello
Primary residence of U.S. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson
This article is about the Jefferson residence. For other uses, see Monticello (disambiguation).
| Monticello | |
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Monticello in September 2013 | |
Interactive map showing Monticello's location | |
| Location | Albemarle County, Virginia nära Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 38°00′37.1″N78°27′08.4″W / 38.010306°N 78.452333°W / 38.010306; -78.452333 |
| Built | 1772 |
| Architect | Thomas Jefferson |
| Architectural style(s) | Neoclassical, Palladian |
| Governing body | The Thomas Jefferson Foundation (TJF) |
| Official name | Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | i, iv, vi |
| Designated | 1987 (11th session) |
| Reference no. | 442 |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Designated | October 15, 1966[1] |
| Reference no. | 66000826 |
| Designated | December 19, 1960[2] |
| Designated | September 9, 19 • Visit Monticello this winter!Join Dr. Anthea Hartig and Dr. Elizabeth Babcock for a dynamic conversation about sharing women’s stories across the Smithsonian museum network. Join us for two special events featuring award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns. Kids can discover the past through hands-on learning in our day camps. Play games, create crafts, explore the gardens, assist archaeologists, and more! Early bird discount and scholarships available. See a rare engraving of the Declaration and learn more about how it went from the tip of Jefferson's quill to an international icon of democracy. There are several ways to explore Monticello this winter. Check out our daily tours and passes to make your plans for visiting us on the mountaintop. Once a month, February - July Get to know Thomas Jefferson—author of the Declaration of Independence and t • Jefferson recognized that the principles he included in the Declaration had not been fully realized and would remain a challenge across time, but his poetic vision continues to have a profound influence in the United States and around the world. Abraham Lincoln made just this point when he declared: All honor to Jefferson – to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, that to-day and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.7 After Jefferson left Congress in 1776, he returned to Virginia and served in the legislature. In late 1776, as a member of the new House of Delegates of Virginia, he worked closely with James Madison. Their first collaboration, to end the religious establishment in Virginia, became a |