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...This association purchased Monticello, Jefferson home, atop a hill outside Charlottesville, Va.. made it a public memorial. Many an architect considers Monticello a finer example of early American architecture than Washington's Mt. Vernon...
...estate of Jefferson Monroe Levy, onetime Representative from New York, onetime owner of "Monticello," famed seat of Thomas Jefferson, revealed that he died insolvent. In 1923 Mr. Lew sold "Monticello," which had been in the possession of his family since the Civil War, to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation for $500,000. He died...
Electricians were busy last week on the roof of a hotel in Charlottes ville, Va. Three miles away, across a valley, stood Monticello, old home of Thomas Jefferson. The electricians were adjusting a search light to play on Monticello, a searchlight so huge that were Mon ticello a mile nearer, the dazzling light would artificially "sunburn" a person standing on the old colonial porch at midwinter midnight. The special function for which the light was being got ready was a spectacle in honor of the Institute of Public Affairs which opened last week at the University of Virginia...
...complete draft of the letter follows: Monticello, June...
...book includes three lectures before the University of Virginia Law School?Progress in Institutions, Progress in Industry, Progress in Foreign Relations. The life of civilized man in our day differs more from George Washington's than Washington's from that of Julius Caesar; Jefferson, in a desk drawer at Monticello, is said to have had the constitutions of 100 democracies?all failures: these statements preface Mr. Baker's explanation of the endurance of ours by reason of its lack of definiteness and detail and its early administration under leadership the character and traditions of which reached backward through centuries...