Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello (2002)

academical village
acanthus leaves
achromatic telescope
agriculture
air pump
airpump
ancient architectural writings
ancient artists
andirons
angular portals
antiquity
appendix
arboretum
arcaded galleries
archaeological excavations
archaeologists
architects
architectural design
architectural detail
architectural elements
architectural vision
armchairs
art collecting
aspen
astronomical clock
astronomy
aviary
Aztec
bake oven
balustrades
baroque
base moldings
bed chamber
bedroom
bedstead
beech
bergeres
biblical paintings
biographical paintings
biscuit figurines
blankets
blooming dates
board fences
botanic garden
botanists
botany
brace and bits
bucrania
bureau
cabinet
cabinetmakers
calcium carbonate
Campeche chair
candelabra
candlesticks
carpets
carptenters’ tools
carriage bays
cartouche motif
cascading waterfalls
catalpa
cattle guards
cellar
chair rails
chairs
cherry
chess parlor
chest of tools
chinaberry
Chinese lattice railing
Chinese porcelain
Chinese railings
chisels
circular windows
classical grotto
classical paintings
classical parapet
clay-chinked log cabins
clay-lined wood chimneys
clothespress
coal grate
coffee mill
column and vase stair balusters
columnar fluted legs
comparative archaeological research
compasses
composition
compound microscope
computer-enhanced photographs
concave mirror
construction
cook’s room
copying press
Corinithin order
cornices
Cornithian columns
cosmopolitan taste
country house library
craftsmen
cuddy
cupboards
curators
dairy
decimal system
decorative arts
decorative mantelpiece
dining room
dirt floors
ditches
door casings
doors
Doric entablature
Doric portico
double bifold blinds
double pocket doors
drafting instruments
drafting table
drawing instruments
drawing knives
drawing room
drawing table with a movable top
drawings
drilling
dumbwaiter
dumwaiters
easy chairs
ebeniste
egg and dart
elliptical openings
Elysium
enclosed porches
English countryside
English mechanical arts
engravings
entablatures
entrance hall
espaliered grapes
ethnology
exotic plants
experimental viticulturists
face of the sun god Apollo
fashionable furnishings
fauteuil a la reine
fauteuils
ferme ornee
files
filing presses
fillers
fine arts
finish joinery
finished woodwork
flatware
flower walk
folding glass pocket doors
foundations
France
Franco-Piedmont style
freehand drawing
French parti
frieze board
frieze ornament
froeze
fruit garden
fruit gardening
fruit trees
fruitery
furnished rooms
furniture
furniture historians
garden art
garden scientist
gardening
genre scenes
geography
glossy floorcloth
goatskin
gouges
grapevine motif
Great Clock
greenhouse
grove
growing plots
guest chambers
guest rooms
hall
hallway
hand magnifier
hawthorn hedges
head gardeners
hearth
heating element
hemlock
herb garden
hidden compartment
historians
historic preservation
historically accurate paint colors
history paintings
hotel
house joiners
house with a dome
human environment
icehouse
imported furnishings
Ionic
Ionic entablature
iron stove
ITalian Renaissance
iverseer
jalousies
jasperware plaques
joiners
joiner’s shop
juxtaposition
kitchen
kitchen garden
kitchen utensils
laborers
lamps and wicks
landholdings
landscape design
landscape restoration
landscapes
lanterns
latteral passageways
laundry
library
living quarters
local wildflowers
locked storeroom
log buildings
log stable
long grass walk
longitudinal section
looking glasses
Louis XVI
low arm chair
L-shaped building
L-shaped wings
lunettes
mahogany
makers
mantels
marble-topped commode
marble-topped tables
marchands merciers
Mars yellow
matches
mathematics
mattresses
measuring
merchant mill
mezzaninos
microclimate
micrometer
mirrored glass
modern architectural writings
mountaintop home
movable furniture
movable top
multimedia exhibit
museum
music
music room
Native American artifacts
native plants
natural history
natural history specimens
neoclassical design
niche
nineteenth-century photographs
Northern Renaissance
nursery
nurseryman
nurserymen
octagonal room
oculus
odometer
offices
open loggiea
oratory
orchards
ornamental farm
ornamental forest
ornamental garden structures
ornamental gardening
ornamental plantings
outchamber
outdoor porticoes
outdoor terraces
oval flower beds
overseer
ox skulls
painted porcelain
painting
paintings
paleontology
paling fence
Palladio’s villas
parlor
parquet floor
pavilion
pedestal achromatic telescope
pendant light
perennial border
phaeton
physical sciences
piazza
picturesque
planes
plant explorers
plant introduction
plantation
plants of curiosity
plaster busts
poetry
polygraph
portable orrery
porticles – suggests small porches or porticoes
portraits
preservation
press
private staircase
private suite
privy
progressive agriculturists
proportion
putti
raised terrace
rasps
recessed arcaded wall
reconstruction
re-creation
red cedar
remodeling
restaurants
restoration
restoration experts
revolving book stand
revolving chair
revolving stand
ribbon beds
Roman architectural orders
Roman Poets
Roman pouring vessel
Roman taste
roof restoration
rosettes
rotunda
round flower beds
round structure
round table
roundabout
roundabout road system
salon
sanctum sanctorum
sandpainted wood
sawmill canal
saws
scale
scales
scholarly restoration
scientific instruments
sculpture
secret flap table
service buildings
sewing table
sheltered passageways
side chairs
siesta chair
silhouette
silk curtains
silk damask
silver askos
silver wares
silver-planted flatware
silversmith
silversmiths
single-acting double glass doors
sitting room
skylight blinds
slave quarters
small chains
smokehouse
solar microscope
spherical sundial
stable
stables
standing furniture
State House
stepped dome
stew stove
stewardship
still lifes
stone retaining wall
storehouse for iron
stoves
streamlined chairs
string line
summer estate
sun-god faces
surveying
surveying compass
surveying instrument
surveyor
swag
table a pupitre
table wares
table with a revolving top
tables
tapissiers garnisseurs
taste
tea room
telescopic theodolite
Temple of Vesta
terrace railings
terrace roofs
terraced wings
terraces
terra-cotta patinated plaster busts
terre verte
textile workshop
theater
theodolite
thermometer
tobacco leaf capital
town house
travel trunk
trellis wallpaper
triple-sash window
triple-sash windows
true meridian
trunk key
tufted cushion
tulip poplar
Tuscan order
two-story outchamber
umbrella magnolia
universal table
unmortared stone foundations
upholsters
vegetable garden
vegetable gardening
velvet
Venetian enclosures
Venetian Porch
verdigris
visiting card
ware room
washhouse
waterwheel
waxworks
Wedgwood
white lead primer
white oak
white pine
wild crabapple
willow oak
wind direction
winding walk
window curtains
windows
Windsor chair
Windsor chairs
Windsor couch
wine cellar
wings
woodwork
work spaces
workbench
workhouse of nature
writers
writing desk
writing table

Sources Cited

Wilson Gaye and Sharon McElroy. Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Charlottesville, Virginia: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. 2002.

Key Facts

At time of upload on October 7, 2023:

  • 126 duplicative terms of those already existing in the Architectural Dictionary
  • 348 original terms
  • 474 total terms in source
  • 73.4% original terms in source
  • 92 sources in dictionary
  • 16,559 unique terms in dictionary
  • 35,072 total terms all sources in dictionary
  • 47.2% unique terms in dictionary