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Essential Architecture- the South Monticello |
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architect |
Thomas Jefferson |
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location |
Charlottesville, VA |
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date |
1771-80, 1796-1809 (H:1772, 1789-1809) |
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style |
Palladian |
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construction |
Brick |
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House |
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| a: angle view of garden side, photo 1990,
J. Howe. |
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| b: long view from garden side, photo 1990,
J. Howe. |
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| c: reconstructed perspective, prior to
1795, ? (UP). |
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| d: view from southwest (U. Penn. slide
coll.: gift of J. F. O'Gorman, 1970). |
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| e: view from southeast, photo 1961, D.
Robb (U. Penn. slide coll.). |
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| g: north flank, photo 1996, M. Brack.
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| h: sky room, photo 1996, J. Cohen.
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| i: original front elevation, Thomas Jefferson 1771, from Fiske Kimball, Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic (New York, 1922), fig. 72, original in Coolidge collection. | |
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links |
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| Special thanks to the Society of Architectural Historians for some of the images on this page (copyright SAH). |
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| www.essential-architecture.com | |