The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923
Subtitle: Saving Thomas Jefferson's House
Contributors: Michael Kammen (Preface)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781882886159
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; Personal Memoirs; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Historic buildings; United States - Revolutionary War; Biography / Autobiography; Monticello (Va.); History: American; Virginia; Historic sites; Historical - U.S.; History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); Jefferson, Thomas; Levy family; Levy, Uriah Phillips; Museums, Tours, Points of Interest; Albemarle County; Jefferson, Thomas,; Neoclassicism (Architecture); 1743-1826; Conservation and restoration; Design and construction; History; Homes and haunts
First sentence: The beauty that Thomas Jefferson described over two centuries ago is still very much in evidence at Monticello, the house he built near Charlottesville, Virginia, and one can even today get a sense of what Jefferson saw and loved in his own time.