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When you think about southern living home plans, a number of architectural motifs spring to mind: grand while pillars flanking wide front porches; grand elliptical staircases; two-story construction with symmetrical windows. The movie Gone With the Wind created the image of Tara - Scarlett O'Hara's antebellum home - as the quintessential southern house style. However, there is not only one style of architecture which is associated with the American South. Depending on the particular region, you might encounter French Creole style architecture, American Federal style architecture, or plantation style houses.
Some of the distinctive features associated with southern architecture were quite common in American homes throughout the nation in the late 1700's to mid 1800's, but they are associated more with the South for a number of reasons. One is that depressed economic conditions in the post-bellum South led Southern homeowners to preserve their homes intact rather than remodel them or tear them down and rebuild, as people in other parts of the country did. Another reason is that Thomas Jefferson popularized the Greek Revival look of colonial house plans both in his home at Monticello and also in the campus he designed for the University of Virginia. He also influenced the Greek Revival design of the U.S. Capitol building. In other Southern areas, however, regional deviations from the basic style developed due to the scarcity of land, the terrain, or the warm climate. In damp areas prone to flooding houses were often built several feet off the ground, with access to the front door provided by straight or curved staircases, often embellished with forged iron railings.
Regional variations on the basic Southern style include the Charleston Single, which was a Federal style house characterized by a central hall leading to two or four rooms on each floor. The front porch and two doorways were located on one side of the house, and when the outer, hospitality door - the one closest to the street - was left open so the neighbors knew that the occupants were receiving visitors. Turning the house plan to the side allowed a deeper layout on long and narrow lots and also gave the occupants more privacy. The windows and doors were oriented to let in the ocean breeze. Another distinctive Southern regional feature is the flying staircase, which characterized the homes of Savannah. The homes in Savannah faced the city squares laid out by James Oglethorpe and they featured piazzas, large columns, and flying staircases which spiraled up without touching the wall. The architectural style of Natchez, Mississippi is lavish and ornate, since this town grew wealthy from cotton commerce shipped by steamboat. The residents of Natchez reflected their prosperity in what many architectural critics feel is the finest collection of nineteenth century antebellum homes in the South. In Louisiana the accent was French, of course, with intermingled influences from Spain and the West Indies as well as France. The French Creole style of southern home plans developed in the late eighteenth century and is best known in New Orleans, featuring hipped roofs, porches or galleries with wrought iron columns and railings and French windows.
Thus, the term southern home plans has different meanings in different parts of the South. Southern living home plans are not always colonial house plans; but they all possess a distinctive, Southern charm.
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Jefferson's Monticello $39.99 Rod Chase Jefferson's Monticello - Art Print |
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Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson, 1923 $19.99 Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson, 1923 - Premium Poster |
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Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson, 1960s $19.99 Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson, 1960s - Premium Poster |
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Jefferson and Monticello $9.99 This book, a National Book Award nominee in 1988, is the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello. For over half a century, it was his consuming passion, his most serious amusement. With a sure command of sources and skilled intuitive understanding of Jefferson, McLaughlin crafts and uncommon portrait of builder and building alike. En route he tells us much about life in Virginia; about Monticello’s craftsmen and how they worked their materials; about slavery, class, and family; and, above all, about the multiplicity of domestic concerns that preoccupied this complex man. It is an engaging and incisive look at the eighteenth-century mind: systematic, rational, and curious, but also playful, comfort-loving, and amusing. Ultimately, it provides readers with great insight into daily life in Colonial and Federal America. |
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Jefferson: A Monticello Sampler $3.95 Rick Britton has been writing about Thomas Jefferson and Monticello for over a dozen years. His well-received Jefferson pieces have appeared in newspapers and magazines all across the Old Dominion. Based largely on that work, this book presents an eclectic and captivating collection of Jefferson essays. Within its pages you'll discover: Jefferson's influence on Albemarle, his native county; the British raid that came within a hairsbreadth of capturing Jefferson; slavery along Monticello's Mulberry Row; Jefferson's friendship with Italian vintner Filippo Mazzei; his wide-ranging scientific pursuits; William Clark's 1807 trek to Big Bone Lick, Ky., in search of Mastodon bones; Jefferson's efforts toward exploring the West; the all-but-forgotten Freeman and Custis expedition; Jefferson's slavery correspondence with Edward Coles; Lafayette's 1824 visit to Monticello; Jefferson's founding of the University of Virginia; his amazing architectural legacy; and the early years of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, the organization that owns and operates Monticello. |
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Thomas Jefferson's Monticello $40.43 Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's magnificent mountaintop home in Charlottesville, Virginia, has attracted public attention ever since Jefferson's day, when sightseers regularly visited the grounds in hopes of catching a glimpse of the former president. Today, each year more than half a million people from around the world visit Monticello, the only home in America on the United Nations' list of World Heritage Sites that must be protected at all costs. "Thomas Jefferson's Monticello" is a superb collection of essays, adorned with beautiful color photography, that showcases this American treasure. Designed by Jefferson himself, Monticello is a model of elegance and symmetry. It is also home to Jefferson's world-class collection of art and porcelain from France, scientific instruments from England, the finest American furniture from Philadelphia and New York, and enduring furnishings made in Monticello's own joinery by enslaved craftsmen. The celebrated gardens and grounds form an experimental yet breathtakingly lovely landscape featuring flowers, fruits, and vegetables of the Old and New Worlds. Featuring essays by Monticello's scholarly staff, this stunning book explores all aspects of Jefferson's home. A section on the plantation and the enslaved community at Monticello provides a larger context in which to place and understand the house, its activities, and its owner. |
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Monticello $17.65 Settled by pioneers who referred to themselves as "rough and ready" and named after Thomas Jefferson's elegant estate in Virginia, Monticello has a colorful past that blends folklore and history to the point where separating one from the other would be nearly impossible--and controversial to boot. Continuous growth and prosperity have made it the hub of southeast Arkansas and a mecca for regionally located Arkansans when hard economic times have hit. Generally believed to be the most affluent town in the state from 1890 to 1920, Monticello provided opportunity, from early on, to those seeking fulfillment of the American Dream. Education has long been at the heart of Monticello's ability to flourish, and its relationship with the University of Arkansas at Monticello has always been symbiotic. |
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Jefferson at Monticello: Memoirs of a Monticello Slave and Jefferson at Monticello $3.95 Covering the years from 1781 into the 1820s, these valuableaccounts remain the chief source of information about Thomas Jefferson's domesticand personal life, interests, habits, appearance, and day-to-day activities atMonticello. Isaac Jefferson and Edmund Bacon were each sixty-fiveyears old when their recollections were recorded. What they remember best, ofcourse, are scenes from the past made vivid and immediate by details involving theirown experience. Although their recollections of Jefferson differ in a number ofways, apparent in both accounts is a concern for the master whose involvement innational affairs made his life so different from their own. |
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Window in Monticello, the Home Thomas Jefferson Built for Himself $79.99 Window in Monticello, the Home Thomas Jefferson Built for Himself - Premium Photographic Print |
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Honeymoon Cottage on Grounds of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello $79.99 "Honeymoon Cottage" on Grounds of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello - Premium Photographic Print |
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One of Thomas Jefferson's Inventions in His Home Monticello $79.99 One of Thomas Jefferson's Inventions in His Home Monticello - Premium Photographic Print |
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Kitchen at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Home in Charlottesville, Virginia $24.99 Kitchen at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Home in Charlottesville, Virginia - Photographic Print |
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Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Home in Charlottesville, Virginia $24.99 Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Home in Charlottesville, Virginia - Photographic Print |
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Jefferson Law Office, Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia $39.99 Jefferson Law Office, Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia - Giclee Print |
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Thomas Jefferson's Return to Monticello from Paris, 1789 $44.99 Thomas Jefferson's Return to Monticello from Paris, 1789 - Giclee Print |
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Images of Thomas Jefferson and Monticello Are Featured on the Nickel $39.99 Joel Sartore Images of Thomas Jefferson and Monticello Are Featured on the Nickel - Photographic Print |
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Thomas Jefferson's Home, Monticello, 1770's $79.99 Thomas Jefferson's Home, Monticello, 1770's - Premium Photographic Print |
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Door Handle in Thomas Jefferson's Home Monticello $79.99 Door Handle in Thomas Jefferson's Home Monticello - Premium Photographic Print |
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South Lawn of Thomas Jefferson's Home Monticello $24.99 Steve Helber South Lawn of Thomas Jefferson's Home Monticello - Photographic Print |
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Vineyard at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Home in Charlottesville, Virginia $24.99 Vineyard at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Home in Charlottesville, Virginia - Photographic Print |
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Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello $24.52 Thomas Jefferson was one of the most remarkable men ever to have crossed America's political stage. The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello reveals more than 150 of the objects Jefferson acquired, reflecting not only Jefferson the statesman but also Jefferson the architect, amateur scientist, connoisseur, and historian. The articles range from invaluable historical treasures such as the lap desk on which the Declaration of Independence was composed and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of Jefferson to the Mandan buffalo robe that was part of his collection of Native American artifacts and the silk damask-upholstered chairs he purchased in Paris. In all, it is a collection that mirrors both the mind of America's greatest statesman and the tastes and styles of a time in history when the American people secured their own independence and offered the world an example of a free people in a democratic state. |
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Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder $3.94 This book, a National Book Award nominee in 1988, is the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello. For over half a century, it was his consuming passion, his most serious amusement. With a sure command of sources and skilled intuitive understanding of Jefferson, McLaughlin crafts and uncommon portrait of builder and building alike. En route he tells us much about life in Virginia; about Monticello's craftsmen and how they worked their materials; about slavery, class, and family; and, above all, about the multiplicity of domestic concerns that preoccupied this complex man. It is and engaging and incisive look at the eighteenth-century mind: systematic, rational, and curious, but also playful, comfort-loving, and amusing. Ultimately, it provides readers with great insight into daily life in Colonial and Federal America. |
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Home of Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, During Spring $39.99 B. Anthony Stewart Home of Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, During Spring - Photographic Print |
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Thomas Jefferson's Grave at His Home, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Virginia $24.99 Thomas Jefferson's Grave at His Home, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Virginia - Photographic Print |
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East Front of Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson, Built 1772 $34.99 East Front of Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson, Built 1772 - Giclee Print |
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Spring Tulips at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Home in Charlottesville, Virginia $24.99 Spring Tulips at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Home in Charlottesville, Virginia - Photographic Print |
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Vegetable Garden at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Home in Charlottesville, Virginia $24.99 Vegetable Garden at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Home in Charlottesville, Virginia - Photographic Print |
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Jefferson at Monticello : Memoirs of a Monticello Slave and Jefferson at Monticello $10.73 No Synopsis Available |
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Jefferson's Isaac: From Monticello to Petersburg $21.02 Jefferson's Isaac: From Monticello to Petersburg tells the comprehensive story of Isaac (Granger) Jefferson. It significantly expands upon where the Memoirs of a Monticello Slave as verbalized by Isaac to Charles Campbell, in the 1840's incomplete effort left off. The reader gains a new insight of the character of this gentleman some called Jefferson's Isaac all his life. Others just called him Isaac, a few called him, "my husband," "dad," or "friend." Isaac was born a slave in 1775 at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Jefferson's Isaac permits the reader to trace his life from Monticello, to Philadelphia, and back to Monticello and Shadwell, to his marriage to Iris, their children, and their subsequent gift to Jefferson's daughter, Maria and her husband John Wayles Eppes, and their time at Eppington, in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Eppes was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eighth United States Congress from Virginia and the next three succeeding Congresses. Isaac Jefferson (Granger) died in Petersburg in the spring of 1846 a "Free Person of Color." Isaac's story helps us unsheathe how an enslaved African-American lived in the midst of some of the greatest figures in American history. It's also a story of basic survival. Discover how Isaac came to Petersburg and who gave Isaac his manumission and freedom... -You'll learn some new insights into the character of this man. -As well as, why he brought a white Petersburg stonemason into court and how his case was finally resolved. -How he sustained a family, a business, in a very different world from that which he was born into; once upon a time, on that cold hilltop, called Monticello. Isaac leaves behind no marker or monument in the city where he worked, paid taxes, and perished. Foreword written by William C. McDonald, PhD, of Charlottesville, Virginia Michael D'Antonio, author of the Wall Street's acclaimed A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America's Cup, A Ball a Dog and Monkey and Forever Blue, says "Seagrave is truly a historian's historian." |
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Thomas Jefferson's Monticello: An Intimate Portrait $12.44 Specially created in collaboration with Ken Burns for his documentary film series on Thomas Jefferson, these rich photographs portray Jefferson's Palladian masterpiece, Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia, as Jefferson might have photographed it himself -- with his own refined intellectual and aesthetic vision. Jefferson died in 1826, the year photography was invented. In the spirit of this early era, award-winning photographer Robert Lautman has captured the house artistically using a unique mid-nineteenth-century method of creating photographs. After shooting the spaces with a large-format camera, and using only natural light -- photographing the east side in the morning and the west side in the afternoon, utilizing shutters and doors for lighting control -- he printed the images with a platinum-palladium process on hand-coated paper. The resulting photographs display a never-before-seen radiant atmosphere of this enchanting place, masterfully reproduced in this charming gift volume. Begun in 1768 when Jefferson was only twenty-five years old, Monticello continued to be altered with changes and additions until his death. It remains the single home in America on the World Heritage List of international treasures. Jefferson, the only architect ever to serve as president, believed this house was his individual exploration and expression of classical architecture. Seen here are the harmonious proportions of the building, warm interiors, extensive grounds, romantic gardens, and elegant furnishings, along with some of Jefferson's prized personal belongings. |