Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello, outside Charlottesville, Virginia, reflects the varied interests encompassing his life--architecture, science, education, wines, music, and gardening--and the contradictions. From his father he inherited 3,000 acres of land and later added to the property so that his plantation took up 1,000 acres.
He started building the home in 1769 at age 26 and spent 40 years of time and money on its construction, making many interior changes along the way at Monticello. The first home was two stories with eight rooms. Jefferson added to it, after he was minister to France from 1784 to 1789, influenced by European architecture (the 13 skylights at Monticello mirror the French idea of big windows), and the house today is three stories with 21 rooms.
No visitor photography allowed in main house
Public tours of the home, which do not permit any photography inside, begin at the original main entrance through the portico on the east front. It was here where people would show up in his day wanting to meet the author of the Declaration of Independence. On the portico ceiling is a wind plate connected to a weather vane to show wind direction. A large clock face on the outside east wall has only an hour hand as Jefferson thought this was sufficient information for laborers working outside. The entrance hall contains recreations of items, including elk antlers, collected by explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark whom Jefferson as the third U.S. president sent on their mission in the new country.
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