Today At Monticello
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TJE Original Title:
Bedroom Portholes
Above Thomas Jefferson's alcove bed are three oval-shaped, porthole-like openings. To the right of the bed is a doorway to a small room, containing a ladder that leads to a closet hidden within the walls above the bed. This space was used to store out-of-season clothing and spare bed linen; the "portholes" helped to ventilate the space.[1]
Footnotes
1. William Howard Adams, Jefferson's Monticello (New York: Abbeville Press , c.1983), 131.
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Comments
The portholes led to the place where Jefferson's dreams lived. Needless to say, it was an interesting place. (Though not true, my falsehood is more fun than the closet reality)