"We looked into a beautiful and circular room in the dome—it is 26 or 27 feet diameter—has eight circular windows and a handsome sky-light. It was designed for a lady's drawing-room when built, but soon found, on account of its situation in the dome, to be too inconvenient for that use, and was abandoned to miscellaneous purposes."

The Dome Room may be reserved for dinners or lectures on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings. On occasion, it may also be reserved during business hours for lectures, but will remain open to the public during those events.

Today, doctoral students defend their dissertations in the North Oval Room, and many events (including monthly dinners for residents of the Lawn) are held inside the Dome Room. Other events are held on the steps of the Rotunda, which is also the traditional starting point for students streaking the Lawn.

The Dome Room as restored today, with the doors to the Cuddy at the back Adding a dome to one’s house was unheard-of in America during Jefferson’s time. Domes are complicated to engineer and construct, and when Jefferson brought the idea back from his stint in Europe in the 1780s, it may have seemed an impossible folly.

The dome on Monticello is visible on the back of the US 5¢ coin. Two flights of very steep and narrow stairs lead to the room on Monticello’s third floor. The use of the Dome Room is not known with certainty; at times it served as a bedroom for a married grandson, as a storeroom, and probably as a playroom for the grandchildren.

2015年5月6日 · Monticello’s signature Palladian dome covers a 500-square foot octagonal room with a glass oculus at its peak. It is still not known how (or even if) the room was furnished during Jefferson’s...

2015年11月24日 · Fig. 6: The Dome Room was almost an afterthought for Jefferson, the result of his desire to have a dome on the west façade of Monticello. This lofty room offers monumental architectural details and a dramatic oculus, as well as a pair of symmetrically aligned doorways.

2015年7月1日 · Although quite beautiful with its large circular windows and oculus skylight, the function of the Dome Room is not completely understood. The only known long-term occupants were Jefferson's...

Enjoy first come, first served standing room areas with limited views of The Dome or find available seating on Level 2 of The Hall and on The Deck. These unreserved tickets allow you to explore Cosm with flexible viewing options. Elevate your experience with a …

The project was completed in time for the bicentennial celebration, and on July 10, 1976, the Dome Room was the site of a luncheon for Queen Elizabeth II, hosted by Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin. By the spring of 1998, the marble bases of the columns on the south side of the Rotunda required repair.