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Architecture, Colonial --- Jefferson, Thomas, --- Homes and haunts --- Monticello (Va.).

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Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds of Monticello today, he would no doubt feel fully at home in the 1,000-foot terraced vegetable garden where the very vegetables and herbs he favored are thriving. Extensively and painstakingly restored under Peter J. Hatch's brilliant direction, Jefferson's unique vegetable garden now boasts the same medley of plants he enthusiastically cultivated in the early nineteenth century. The garden is a living expression of Jefferson's genius and his distinctly American attitudes. Its impact on the culinary, garden, and landscape history of the United States continues to the present day. Graced with nearly 200 full-color illustrations, "A Rich Spot of Earth" is the first book devoted to all aspects of the Monticello vegetable garden. Hatch guides us from the asparagus and artichokes first planted in 1770 through the horticultural experiments of Jefferson's retirement years (1809-1826). The author explores topics ranging from labor in the garden, garden pests of the time, and seed saving practices to contemporary African American gardens. He also discusses Jefferson's favorite vegetables and the hundreds of varieties he grew, the half-Virginian half-French cuisine he developed, and the gardening traditions he adapted from many other countries.

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A classic account of the villa-from ancient Rome to the twentieth century-by "the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture" (Architect's Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the "country place" as a focus for examining the relationships between urban and rural life, between building and the natural environment, and between architectural design and social, cultural, economic, and political forces. "The villa," he reminds us, "accommodates a fantasy which is impervious to reality." As city dwellers idealized country life, the villa, unlike the farmhouse, became associated with pleasure and asserted its modernity and status as a product of the architect's imagination.

Country homes. --- Austen, Jane. --- Avezzano: relief from 8. --- Bembo, Pietro. --- Boyle, Richard. --- Burlington, Richard Boyle. --- Campania. --- Canaletto. --- Cato. --- Claude Lorrain. --- Daly, César. --- Horace. --- James, Henry. --- Jefferson, Thomas. --- Laurentinum. --- Le Corbusier. --- Monet, Claude. --- Monticello, Va. --- Pembroke. --- Pliny the Younger. --- Poliziano, Angelo. --- Pope, Alexander. --- Rome. --- Schinkel, Karl Friedrich. --- Shaftesbury. --- Thomson, James. --- Tivoli: Hadrian's villa. --- Turner, Joseph Mallord William. --- Tusci. --- Varro, Marcus Terentius. --- Virgil. --- Vitruvius. --- Wharton, Edith. --- Architecture, Domestic --- Country homes --- History.