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Monticello and its reflection Some of the gardens on the property. Monticello (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ ˈ tʃ ɛ l oʊ / MON-tih-CHEL-oh) was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States.
The building name was changed on June 13, 1980, to honor former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, who had been a key figure in the establishment of the Library in 1800. Jefferson offered to sell his personal book collection to Congress in September 1814, one month after the British had burned the Capitol in the War of 1812 .
After British forces burnt the Library of Congress during the 1814 Burning of Washington, Jefferson sold his second library to the U.S. government for $23,950, hoping to help jumpstart the Library of Congress's rebuilding. Jefferson used a portion of the proceeds to pay off some of his large debt.
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Library of Congress. Gerald Ford. ... Thomas Jefferson. Before: $240 million ... hundreds of slaves, and his sprawling Monticello estate. His massive land acquisitions, investments, and ...
A 1902 aerial view from the United States Capitol of the five-year old Library of Congress in its new building, which was renamed the Thomas Jefferson Building in 1980 in honor of Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson Building, built 1890–1897, the Library of Congress's main building, on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., showing West side colonnade ...
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