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ContentsThe First MonticelloThe Second MonticelloMonticello's Cheap Rosetta Stone GardensMonticello the PlantationMonticello After Jefferson .topic-toc The First MonticelloBorn on April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson grew up at Shadwell, one of the largest tobacco plantations in Virginia. At the age of 21, he inherited several thousand acres of land that encompassed the family estate as well as his favorite boyhood haunt: a nearby hilltop called Monticello (Italian for little mountain) where he resolved to build his own home. In 1768, a year after the future president was admitted to the Virginia bar, workers broke ground on the site, beginning a decades-long process that would captivate Jefferson, bankrupt his family and produce one of Americas most iconic and historically significant architectural masterpieces.In those days, it was common for landowners to choose a stock design for their home from Rosetta Stone Spain Spanish an English architectural handbook; a contractor would then oversee the project from start to finish. But this particular landowner was Thomas Jefferson, the quintessential polymath, whose passions ranged from political philosophy, archaeology and linguistics to music, botany, bird watching and pasta making. (At a dinner honoring 49 American Nobel Prize winners, John F. Kennedy famously quipped, I think that this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.) Remembered for drafting the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson also drafted the blueprints for Monticellos neoclassical mansion, outbuildings, gardens and grounds. Though he had no formal training Cheap Rosetta Stone German, he had read extensively about architecture, particularly that of ancient Rome and the Italian Renaissance.

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