Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia, was designed by Thomas Jefferson as his plantation house. The infobox gives 1772, while the text says work on the first house began in 1768, and the article says how much of that design was completed is disputed. The infobox lists Neoclassical and Palladian styles.
Remodeling from 1794 added a center hallway and a parallel set of rooms, more than doubling the area to about 11,000 square feet (1,000 m²). Jefferson replaced a second-story portico with an octagonal dome and put a mezzanine bedroom floor in place of the second full story. The article gives no materials.
The house resembles Chiswick House in London. A clock on the east portico has only an hour hand. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has owned it since 1923. Visitors tour the cellar and ground floor, and higher-priced passes include upper floors and the dome.
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