Monticello is one of those places that is so iconic that I feel like its hard to deal with. It's so much of a museum that it's hard to think of it as someones home. In a way it's really fitting that figure so central American history such as Jefferson should have lived in a place that seems so much larger than life now. With some research I found out that Monticello hasn't always been so nice in fact multiple times since it was built it has fallen into ruin and almost been destroyed. It is only recently with our current obsession with history that the place has become so important that it has been refurbished and made into a shrine for Jefferson.
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Text:Leepson, Marc. Saving Monticello: The Levy Familys Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built. New York, NY: The Free Press, 2001. Print.
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