Monticello – Charlottesville, Virginia
The visitor center has a complex of buildings with gift store, museum space, classroom and meeting space, and dining area. A central courtyard is framed with loggias on either side.
The Thomas Jefferson by StudioEIS is surprisingly life like. The position is near where the trolley takes visitors up to the house.
View approaching the house where the tour starts inside of the entrance lobby.
View from the front porch of the house looking at the surrounding landscape.
From one of the promenades it is possible to go out and see the surrounding landscape.
From the porch in the distance the rotunda that Jefferson designed for the University of Virginia is visible.
View of the lawn behind Monticello.
This corridor beneath the house connects with the storage and service areas of the house.
Descending the hill back towards the visitor center, one encounters the cemetery where Jefferson is buried. The cemetery was laid out in 1773 and where Dabney Carr who married Jefferson’s sister was buried. Jefferson was buried here in 1826. The current monument is a larger one erected by the United States in 1883 to replace an earlier one which Jefferson designed. Its base covers the graves of Jefferson, his wife, his two daughters, and of his son-in-law Governor Thomas Mann Randolph. The graveyard remains the property of Jefferson’s descendants, and continues to be a family burying ground.
This interpretive marker notes burial locations of several key interments at the burying ground.
Once back at the visitor center we enjoyed a closer look at the exhibits.