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Monticello: Portrait of Its Designer
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Monticello: Portrait of Its Designer

By Timothy Sandefur

May 02, 2019
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Two hundred and fifty years ago, the first bricks were laid for what would become Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. At twenty-three, Jefferson had just been elected to his first political office in the Virginia legislature—and he was also beginning what would become a side career as the nation’s first native-born architect. Monticello, which he never quite…

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