Who built Monticello?
• The stone and brick work was done by local white masons and their apprentices. • Local carpenters, assisted by several enslaved Monticello carpenters provided the rough structural woodwork. • The fine woodwork (floors, cornices, and other moldings) was made by several skilled white joiners who were hired from as far away as Philadelphia. One Monticello slave, John Hemmings, who trained under the white workman James dinsmore, became a very skilled joiner and carpenter.
