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Extending all the way from the northern Shetland Islands to the southern Lands’ End, the British Isles’ major geographical diversity provides families looking to spend the summer holiday somewhere in the UK with a vast array of recreational activities at their disposal.

With the contiguity of Hastings in the east and Brighton in the west, East-Sussex provides families with a vast array of activities for a holiday in the summertime. During the summer is when the long, sandy beaches permit people to relish in watersports like sailing and windsurfing. Conversely, East-Sussex is where you will find famous attractions like Beachyhead and Hastings Castle to enjoy in the summertime. The nation’s largest city, Brighton, has a crazy nightlife and provides the probability of some great shopping trips and night escapades.

Higher up on the East Coast in the center of East-Anglia is where Suffolk provides a chance to enjoy the natural beauty of the North Sea coast; Suffolk Broads National Park is usually referred to as an “Area of outstanding natural beauty”. Furthermore, while Suffolk is one of the United Kingdom’s most rustic regions, it also makes an excellent place for taking walks in the wilderness. There are also opportunities to relish in a horse race at Newmarket. This England area is enjoyed most throughout the nice, warm summer months when people are able to take strolls in the Suffolk wilderness and enjoy the horse races.

Southport, which is found in England’s North West point, is a coastal village on the Irish Sea coast that is adjacent to Preston and Liverpool. With its white, sandy coastline and Southport Pleasureland amusement park, this is the perfect town for a summer trip. Liverpool has the biggest modern and contemporary art gallery beyond London, is the former capital of Culture and the hometown of the Beatles; it presents a vast selection of cultural recreations like the Tate Liverpool and Beatles Story. In conjunction with all the cultural recreations, Liverpool also has plenty of shopping centers.

There are two types of property ownership recognized by law, jus privatum and jus publicum. Everybody’s familiar with jus privatum, also known as fee simple ownership. It means that you have title to a parcel of property, which confers upon you certain rights with respect to that property. Historically, private property rights have been defined as:
The right to control the use of your property.
The right to the benefits that accrue from your property.
The right to sell or transfer your property.
The right to exclude others from access to your property.
On the other hand, few people are familiar with jus publicum, also known as the public trust. Jus publicum ownership is always vested in the state, never in a private party. Unlike jus privatum, jus publicum is not transferrable. Furthermore, in any case where jus publicum can be established, it overrides jus privatum. Therein lies the rub. That enables the state to use jus publicum to abrogate your private property rights, without your consent and without compensation, in any situation where jus publicum can be established.

The idea of public trust goes back to English Common Law.

“Both the title and the dominion of the sea, and of rivers and arms of the sea, where the tide ebbs and flows, and of all the lands below high water mark, within the jurisdiction of the crown of England, are in the King. Such waters and the lands which they cover either at all times or at least when the tide is in, are incapable of ordinary and private occupation, cultivation, and improvement and their natural and primary uses are public in their nature, for highways of navigation and commerce, domestic and foreign, and for the purpose of fishing by all the King’s subjects. Therefore the title, jus privatum, in such lands, as of waste and unoccupied lands, belongs to the king, as the sovereign; and the dominion thereof, jus publicum, is vested in him, as the representative of the nation and for the public benefit.”
— U.S. Supreme Court, Shively v. Bowlby (1894)After the American Revolution, the thirteen former colonies that made up the newly formed Union assumed the title and rights of the King to all navigable rivers within their respective territories. The jus publicum was held to be non-transferrable, acting as a permanent public easement on the jus privatum title for purposes of navigation, commerce, and fishing, as originally designated under English Common Law. At a time when rivers were the most practical means of transporting people and goods over long distances, the free use of navigable waterways was considered essential for the development of local and interstate economies.

As other states were admitted to the Union, they were guaranteed equal footing with the original thirteen, and so acquired the same title and rights to the navigable rivers within their jurisdiction.

History
Work began on what historians would subsequently refer to as “the first Monticello” in 1768. Jefferson moved into the South Pavilion (an outbuilding) in 1770. Jefferson left Monticello in 1784 to serve as Minister of the United States to France. During his tenure in Europe, he had an opportunity to see some of the classical buildings with which he had become acquainted from his reading, as well as to discover the “modern” trends in French architecture that were then fashionable in Paris. His decision to remodel his own home may date from this period. In 1794, following his service as the first U.S. Secretary of State (1790-93), Jefferson began rebuilding his house based on the ideas he had acquired in Europe. The remodeling continued throughout most of his presidency (1801-09).
Thomas Jefferson added a center hallway and a parallel set of rooms to the structure, more than doubling its area. He removed the second full-height story from the original house and replaced it with a mezzanine bedroom floor. The most dramatic element of the new design was an octagonal dome, which he placed above the West front of the building in place of a second-story portico. The room inside the dome was described by a visitor as “a noble and beautiful apartment,” but it was rarely usederhaps because it was hot in summer and cold in winter, or because it could only be reached by climbing a steep and very narrow flight of stairs. The dome room has now been restored to its appearance during Jefferson’s lifetime, with “Mars yellow” walls and a painted green floor.
Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, and Monticello was inherited by his eldest daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph. Financial difficulties led to Martha selling Monticello to James T. Barclay, a local apothecary, in 1831. Barclay sold it in 1834 to Uriah P. Levy, the first Jewish American to serve an entire career as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy. Levy greatly admired Jefferson. During the American Civil War, the house was seized by the Confederate government and sold, though Uriah Levy’s estate recovered it after the war.
Lawsuits filed by Levy’s heirs were settled in 1879, when Uriah Levy’s nephew, Jefferson Monroe Levy, a prominent New York lawyer, real estate and stock speculator and member of Congress, bought out the other heirs and took control of the property. Jefferson Levy, like his uncle, repaired, restored and preserved Monticello, which was deteriorating seriously while the lawsuits wended their way through the courts in New York and Virginia.
Monticello and its reflection
A private non-profit organization, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, purchased the house from Jefferson Levy in 1923 with funds raised by Theodore Fred Kuper and it was restored by architects including Fiske Kimball and Milton L. Grigg. Monticello is now operated as a museum and educational institution. Visitors can view rooms in the cellar and ground floor, but the second and third floors are not open to the general public due to fire code restrictions. Visitors can, however, tour the third floor (Dome), while on a Signature Tour.
Monticello is the only private home in the United States that has been designated a World Heritage Site. From 1989 to 1992, a team of architects from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) painstakingly created a collection of measured drawings of Monticello. These drawings are now kept at the Library of Congress. The World Heritage Site designation also includes the original grounds of Jefferson’s University of Virginia.
Among Jefferson’s other designs are his other home near Lynchburg called Poplar Forest and the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond.
Decoration and furnishings
Monticello depicted on the reverse of the 1953 $2 bill. Note the two “Levy lions” on either side of the entrance. The lions, placed there by Jefferson Levy, were removed in 1923 when the Thomas Jefferson Foundation purchased the house.
Much of Monticello’s interior decoration reflect the ideas and ideals of Jefferson himself.
The original main entrance is through the portico on the east front. The ceiling of this portico incorporates a wind plate connected to a weather vane, showing the direction of the wind. A large clock face on the external east-facing wall has only an hour hand since Jefferson thought this was accurate enough for outdoor laborers. The clock reflects the time shown on the “Great Clock”, designed by Jefferson, in the entrance hall. The entrance hall contains recreations of items collected by Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition. The floorcloth here is painted a “true grass green” upon the recommendation of artist Gilbert Stuart in order for Jefferson’s ‘essay in architecture’ to invite the spirit of the outdoors into the house.
The south wing includes Jefferson’s private suite of rooms. The library holds many books in Jefferson’s third library collection. His first library was burned in a plantation fire, and he ‘ceded’ (or sold) his second library in 1815 to the United States Congress to replace the books lost when the British burned the Capitol in 1814. This second library formed the nucleus of the Library of Congress. As famous and “larger than life” as Monticello seems, the house itself is actually no larger than a typical large home. Jefferson considered much furniture to be a waste of space, so the dining room table was erected only at mealtimes, and beds were built into alcoves cut into thick walls that contain storage space. Jefferson’s bed opens to two sides: to his cabinet (study) and to his bedroom (dressing room).
The west front (illustration) gives the impression of a villa of very modest proportions, with a lower floor disguised in the hillside.
The north wing includes the dining roomhich has a dumbwaiter incorporated into the fireplace as well as dumbwaiters (shelved tables on castors) and a pivoting serving door with shelvesnd two guest bedrooms.
Outbuildings and plantation
Jefferson’s vegetable garden
The main house was augmented by small outlying pavilions to the north and south. A row of functional buildings (dairy, wash houses, store houses, a small nail factory, a joinery etc.) and slave dwellings known as Mulberry Row lay nearby to the south. A stone weaver’s cottage survives, as does the tall chimney of the joinery, and the foundations of other buildings. A cabin on Mulberry Row was, for a time, the home of Sally Hemings; she later moved into a room in the “south dependency” below the main house. On the slope below Mulberry Row Jefferson maintained an extensive vegetable garden.
The house was the center of a plantation of 5,000acres (2,000ha) tended by some 150 slaves. There are also two houses included in the whole.
In 2004, the trustees acquired the only property that overlooks Monticello, the taller mountain that Jefferson called Montalto, but known to Charlottesville residents as Mountaintop Farm, Patterson’s or Brown’s Mountain. Rushing to stave off development of new homes, the trustees spent $15 million to purchase the property, which Jefferson had owned and which had served as a 20th-century residence as farm houses divided into apartments for many University of Virginia students (including George Allen). The officials at Monticello had long viewed the property located on the mountain as an eyesore, and were very interested in purchasing the property when it came on the market. Monticello now charges $20 for adults and $7 for children to visit the top of the mountain and only allows admission to the area from May to October.
Miscellaneous
The house is very similar in appearance to Chiswick House, another Neo-Palladian house built in 1726-9 in London.
A view of Monticello from the gardens
Monticello was featured in Bob Vila’s A&E Network production, Guide to Historic Homes of America, in a tour which included the Dome Room, which is only open to the public during a limited number of tours each year, and Honeymoon Cottage.
Sidney Fiske Kimball, father of the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture, and one of the prime movers behind the restoration of Monticello, and author of the book Thomas Jefferson, Architect, used Jefferson’s architectural principles to build his own retirement home outside Charlottesville called “Shack Mountain,” short for Shackelford Mountain, the surname of a branch of Jefferson’s descendants. Built in 1935-1936, Shack Mountain is a Jefferson-style pavilion, like Monticello, that is considered Kimball’s masterpiece. Kimball himself advised on the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg and Stratford Hall Plantation. Shack Mountain was nominated as a National Historic Landmark in 1992.
Replicas
The entrance pavilion of the Naval Academy Jewish Chapel at Annapolis is modeled on Monticello.
Panoramas
Front of Monticello
Vegetable Garden – 180 degrees
See also
Monticello Association
Poplar Forest, Mr. Jefferson’s private retreat.
References
^ “National Register Information System”. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2006-03-15. http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
^ “Monticello (Thomas Jefferson House)”. National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=632&ResourceType=Building. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
^ Kern, Chris. “Jefferson’s Dome at Monticello”. http://www.ChrisKern.Net/essay/jeffersonsDomeAtMonticello.html. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
^ Fleming, Thomas. “The Jew Who Helped Save Monticello.” The Jewish Digest. February 1974: 43-49.
^ http://www.monticello.org/visit/signature_tours.html
^ http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/dayinlife/sunrise/design.html
^ http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/dayinlife/entrance/design.html
^ http://www.loc.gov/about/history.html
^ http://www.loc.gov/about/history.html
^ http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/dayinlife/sunrise/bedroom.html
^ “The Hook – Off Montalto, “It’s all downhill from here.””. 2004-06-03. http://www.readthehook.com/Stories/2004/06/03/newsOffMontaltoquotitsAllD.html.
^ “Jeffersons’s Monticello: Getting Tickets”. 2007-02-17. http://www.monticello.org/visit/getting_tickets.html.
^ Bob Vila (1996). “”Guide to Historic Homes of America.”” (html). A&E Network. http://www.bobvila.com/BVTV/AE/America.html.
^ The Virginia Landmarks Register, By Calder Loth, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Published by University of Virginia Press, 1999, ISBN 0813918626
^ The Architecture of Jefferson Country: Charlottesville and Albemarle County, K. Edward Lay, University of Virginia Press, 2000
^ Fiske Kimball, Shack Mountain, University of Virginia library, lib.virginia.edu
Further reading
Leepson, Marc, Saving Monticello: The Levy Family’s Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built, University of Virginia Press, 2003, ISBN-8139-2219-4
Mc Laughlin, Jack, “Jefferson and Monticello, The Biography of a Builder”, Holt, 1988.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Monticello
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, official site
Monticello’s Shadows, City Journal, Autumn 2007
World Heritage Nomination
The Monticello Explorer, an interactive multimedia look at the house
Thomas Jefferson Wiki
HABS drawing
Monticello Association of Jefferson lineal descendants
“Moving a mountain: How Monticello got Montalto back” article in The Hook
Monticello restoration and Milton Grigg
Tour Experience of Monticello
Jefferson’s Dome at Monticello
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