弗吉尼亚的托马斯∙杰斐逊故居入选联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录。

托马斯∙杰斐逊（Thomas Jefferson）对于他在弗吉尼亚建造的庄园曾这样写道：“希望实现我最终的愿望，无论任何地方，无论任何群落，不如在蒙蒂塞洛（Monticello）永终一生，则同样不胜慰悦。”

托马斯∙杰斐逊是美国第三届总统、开国元勋，独立宣言（Declaration of Independence）撰写者。托马斯∙杰斐逊总统基金会主席莱斯利∙格林∙鲍曼（Leslie Greene Bowman）认为，托马斯∙杰斐逊的住所与他革故鼎新的观念有关联。

鲍曼说：“蒙蒂塞洛是唯一入选广受尊崇的联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录（UNESCO World Heritage List）的美国房屋建筑，具有独特的意义。”联合国教科文组织（The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization）已确定全世界900多处景观具有“杰出的普遍价值”。据鲍曼说，“蒙蒂塞洛体现了新共和国……以及其他向往自由和自决的人民的普遍价值。”

托马斯∙杰斐逊按照古典希腊和罗马建筑式样设计了这个庄园，一方面对欧洲传统表示崇尚，另一方面预示着今后出现的一系列文化探索。

Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, is among more than 900 sites worldwide included in the UNESCO World Heritage List for their “outstanding universal value.” The man who wrote the Declaration of Independence and was the third president of the United States spent 30 years building and remodeling his plantation home.

“I am as happy no where else and in no other society,” Thomas Jefferson wrote of the home he built in Virginia, “and all my wishes end, where I hope my days will end, at Monticello.”

The home of the United States’ third president, Founding Father and author of the Declaration of Independence is linked with Jefferson’s world-changing ideas, said Leslie Greene Bowman, president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

“Monticello has the distinction of being the only house in America inscribed in the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage List,” Bowman said. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has designated more than 900 sites worldwide as being of “outstanding universal value.” According to Bowman, “Monticello symbolizes the universal values of the new republic … and those of the rest of humanity who aspire to freedom and self-determination.”

Jefferson’s design for his plantation home, based on classical Greek and Roman architecture, both honors European tradition and foreshadows the cultural experimentation that would follow.