The result is a series of reconstructed dwellings in the South Yard and a new permanent exhibit, “The Mere Distinction of Colour,” on the basement floor of Montpelier. Ten years later, and with the help of a $10 million gift from philanthropist David Rubenstein, the Montpelier staff has devoted new attention and resources to that untold story. “It shames you, on some level,” Morris acknowledged when I visited Montpelier earlier in June. The contrast between the grandeur of the South Terrace and the raw South Lawn was striking. Weed killer had recently been sprayed on the area, and the ties rested on dead grass. Her question called attention to the disparity between the attention lavished on the fourth president’s home and on the South Yard, where railroad ties marked the sites where an insurance map indicated that slave dwellings had stood. Mary’s College of Maryland who is descended from people enslaved at Montpelier.įord wanted to know how much had been spent on the renovations to the main house. Giles Morris, Montpelier’s vice president for marketing and communications, found himself on the terrace overlooking the South Lawn with Iris Ford, an associate professor of anthropology at St. In 2007, while the restoration of James Madison’s Montpelier, in Orange, Virginia, was underway, a group of the estate’s African-American stakeholders came to make a visit. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close Menu
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