User:BriannynStauffer/What Influenced the Monticello?

= Monticello Influences = This article is about the buildings that influenced the design for the Monticello. Which was the home to Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president of the United States as well as a great American architect.

Overview
The Monticello is a grand home built by, and for the former president Thomas Jefferson. You will find this building on the outskirts of Charlottesville, Virginia. This home also served as the plantation for Jefferson (Hepler, R. 2022, March 24). The third U.S. president is known to be one of the great American architects who designed around fifteen other buildings, both public and residential. Just like most architects, Jefferson had many different influences when designing these spaces.

Influences
In 1784 Thomas Jefferson left America to travel and explore the streets of France. During this time his taste in architecture was altered. He was mainly influenced by the Neoclassical style commonly seen in French architecture, which is the reason the Monticello is designed in a classical revival style (Leepson, M.).

Jefferson had also fallen in love with the Pantheon, even though he was never able to make the trip to Rome to see it in person. Not only did the temples facade influence the Monticello, but also the Rotunda, which is a library found at the University of Virginia. Both buildings have a temple like front replicating the Pantheon facade with large structural columns. This building front is also similar to the Palladian (Zygmont, B). The back side of the buildings also pays tribute to the Roman temple. Jefferson did this by including a dome shape behind the temple front. After Jefferson resigned from Washington's cabinet, he chose to remodel portions of the Monticello. This time he was greatly influenced by the Hotel De Salm in Paris. (Zygmont, B)