Dwelling (MRS 2)

Name: Monticello
Address: 1050 Monticello Loop, Charlottesville, VA, 22902, US
Telephone: (434) 984-9800
Price range: $

An unnamed log dwelling for the enslaved not listed in Jefferson's records.

A small a-frame clapboard structure with a simple wooden door, one window, and a chimney on one side. — Digital model of a dwelling for enslaved people on Mulberry Row not named by Jefferson that Monticello archaeologists labelled MRS 2; image by RenderSphere, LLC; (c) Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

Dates
1780s

Built in the 1780s, this unnamed log dwelling likely housed an enslaved family or kinship group. Not mentioned by Jefferson in his records, Monticello staff archaeologists found evidence of the building in the 1980s and called it Mulberry Row Structure 2 (MRS-2).