How Was Monticello Saved?

The story of the intervening years has been recorded with many variations, but of one fact there can be no disagreement: Monticello survives because of the efforts of its two major owners of the period, Uriah Phillips Levy, USN, and his nephew, Jefferson Monroe Levy.

Who maintains Monticello?

For almost 100 years, Monticello has been maintained and kept open to the public by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., which owns over 2,500 acres of Jefferson's 5,000-acre plantation.

What happened to Monticello after Jefferson's death?

Ending eighty-nine years of Levy family ownership, he sold Monticello in 1923 to the newly organized Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation which has provided good stewardship of the property ever since. But for the Levy family—who owned the property longer than the Jeffersons—there would be no Monticello.