Restoration Talk and Tour May 17, 2008

In honor of National Historic Preservation month, Director of Restoration Travis McDonald will present a slide talk and tour explaining why Jefferson's design of his retreat, Poplar Forest, was a radically modern work of architecture in America for its time. Jefferson's work was a "melting pot" of architectural prototypes but also very personal.

The current restoration work on the wing of service rooms is one of the most Jeffersonian parts of the architecture and one that was innovative and unusual in American architecture.

Regular admission charge, which also includes a separate tour of the house either before or after the restoration tour.

Official Website: http://www.poplarforest.org