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Monticello: Final elevation of the first version

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by Thomas Jefferson, circa March 1771

35.6 cm x 48.9 cm (14" x 19-1/4")

N48; K023; from the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts

Final elevation of first version. Scale: 4'=1". The house was nearly finished by 1782, but the upper portico seems never to have been completed. The octagonal ends are not shown on this drawing.

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