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Symposiums and Study Trips >Jefferson's Monticello |
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JEFFERSON'S MONTICELLO AND MADISON'S MONTPELIER The Decorative Arts Trust Fall Symposium 
Host Hotel: Omni, Charlottesville, VA (Click here for alternate accomodations.) Join Trust members for the Fall symposium to explore the great Monticello and the newly recovered Montpelier. We will study the interiors, the objects and the cultured lives of Thomas Jefferson and James and Dolley Madison. We’ll raise a glass of Madeira to our host in spirit, Mr. Jefferson, from his terrace at sunset. Sunday will address a project served by both men, the building of the Academical Village that is today the University of Virginia. Visits to related private houses are scheduled throughout the symposium. Thursday’s Optional Tour will take Trust members to Greenwood, Virginia, and its great diversity of important private houses. We hope you will be part of this exceptional symposium. (** This symposium is now fully booked. No further registrations are being accepted.) Thursday Optional Tour September 24, 2009
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Greenwood, just west of Charlottesville, was established in the second quarter of the 18th century by Scotch Irish and grew into a region of impressive equestrian estates by the 1920’s. Still extremely rural and made up of mostly large unbroken tracts, this part of Albemarle County is an architectural treasure trove and gardener’s delight. Ralph Harvard will take us to a number of interesting houses, the earliest from the 1740’s representing the first settlers’ houses and still owned by descendants of the builder.
Other visits will represent works by architects William Lawrence Bottomley, Milton Grigg and John Russell Pope, the latter a massive rock castle on an eminence with expansive views. A rambling Georgian revival house has a superior collection of American decorative arts, and a home in the Italianate taste reflects international travel and collecting. Both houses have superb gardens laid out by Charles Gillette in the 1930’s. Another was occupied by Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, model for the ubiquitous “Gibson Girl”. Together these homes represent the epitome of grand old fashioned country estates at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Symposium Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:30 p.m. Reception/Cocktails 6:15 p.m. Welcome 6:30 p.m. Friendship, Art, and Architecture in Jefferson’s Albemarle
9:00-11:00 a.m. Restoring Jefferson’s Monticello Rediscovering Monticello through Archaeology Domestic Life at Monticello Made at Monticello: The Furniture of the Joinery 11:30 p.m. Depart for Lunch and afternoon at Monticello 12 noon Arrive Michie Tavern for lunch 1:30 p.m. Continue on to Monticello 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Explore the new Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center and Smith Education Center. View film and explore exhibitions at will. Stop by the new Museum Shop, too. 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Tour Monticello’s grounds, gardens, newly restored dependencies, and archaeological lab. 5:00 p.m. Private Tours of Monticello, the house, with Susan Stein, followed by Madeira on the Northwest Terrace at Monticello. “From this northern terrace the view is sublime; and here Jefferson and his company were accustomed to sit, bare-headed, in the summer until bed-time, having neither dew nor insects to annoy them. Here, perhaps, has been assembled more love of liberty, virtue, wisdom, and learning than on any other private spot in America.” Granddaughter Ellen recalled. 7:00 p.m. Depart from Visitors Center by Motor Coach for Supper at Morven. 7:15 p.m. Arrive Morven Estate, 18th century house on 2,913 acres. This land once belonged to William Short, Jefferson’s secretary in Paris. Enjoy house, renowned gardens and supper. 9:15 p.m. Depart 9:30 p.m. Arrive Omni Hotel 
Saturday, September 26, 2009 8:45 a.m. Depart on Motor Coach for Montpelier in Orange County, VA 9:45 a.m. Arrive Montpelier. Gather for lectures at the Visitors Center. 10:00-12 noon A Presidential Detective Story Forensic Restoration: Recovering the Home of James Madison Not Just Any Hole in the Wall:--Deciphering the Paintings in the Madison’s Drawing Room Assembling the Evidence: The Curatorial Perspective 1:00 p.m. Tours of house and grounds 2:30 p.m. Depart for visit to two spectacular private Orange County houses, collections, gardens and grounds. 5:30 p.m. Depart for return to Charlottesville and Omni Hotel. 6:00 p.m. Arrive at Omni Hotel. Dinner on own Sunday, September 27, 2009 9:00-9:40 a.m. Palladio's Villas: The Development of an Ideal 9:40-10:10 a.m. Coffee Break 10:10 a.m. End of Biennial Silent Book Auction 10:10-10:30 a.m. Decorative Arts Trust Annual Meeting 10:30-11:20 a.m. Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village: 11:20- 11:30 a.m. Farewell 11:30-12 noon Silent Book Auction check-out Sunday Optional Tour September 27, 2009
From our Sunday morning lectures of investigating Palladio’s architecture and Jefferson’s final project, building a village for higher learning in Albemarle County, Trust members will proceed to explore these ideals in person. First, we’ll enjoy a luncheon at the beautiful Farmington Country Club in the octagonal room designed by Thomas Jefferson. Accompanied by Richard Guy Wilson, we will visit his exhibition, Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece, 1817-1824, at the Art Museum of the University of Virginia. Filled with Jefferson’s original drawings, prints, and letters exchanged with his colleagues as the plan for his village took shape, the exhibition presents a selection of paintings, drawings, and sculpture that portray Jefferson and the men who helped him build what is today the University of Virginia. Afterwards we will walk the Lawn itself, visit the Rotunda and the Pavilion VII, now the Colonnade Club, and generally take in the magnificence of Jefferson’s crowning project with our honored expert, Professor Wilson. This glorious afternoon will be capped by a visit to a lovely old private estate for drinks. 12:30 p.m. Depart Omni Hotel by Motor Coach 1:00 p.m. Farmington Country Club for lunch in the octagonal room designed by Thomas Jefferson 2:30 p.m. Depart 3:00 p.m. Arrive at the University of Virginia Art Museum, to see the exhibition, Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece, 1817-1824 3:45 p.m. Depart for tour of The Lawn with a stop at the newly restored Colonnade Club in Pavilion VII, and the Rotunda with Richard Guy Wilson 5:00 p.m. The day will end with a tour and a drink at a farm along the eastern slope of the Southwest Mountains. This area was originally part of the 1730 Nicholas Meriwether land grant of almost 18,000 acres and first appears on the 1751 Fry-Jefferson map. Today, this area is noted for its unparalleled beauty and its large concentration of farms under permanent conservation easements. 6:30 p.m. Depart 7:00 p.m. Arrive Omni Hotel Hotel Information HOST HOTEL The Hilton Garden Inn And, if you want super deluxe and have your car, try: This symposium is now fully booked. Registrations are no longer being accepted. |
