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The house was mostly heated by fireplaces. After 1795 Jefferson used wood-burning stoves in some rooms. In the late 1790s he altered the dimensions of his fireplaces to apply the fuel-saving principles of Count Rumford. Candles provided most of the illumination, although Jefferson owned a number of oil-burning lamps as well.
