"Monument Panel in Fence on Northwest Side
of Monticello Cemetery"
Designed by Lt. Col. Thomas L. Casey, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1882
Delineated by Richard V. Ezdorf, June 3, 1882
Ink on paper
21 1/2" x 32 1/2" National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the National
Park Service
Monticello Cemetery Gate and Fence
In 1882 Congress appropriated $10,000 for the placement
of a new monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson at the Monticello
cemetery near Charlottesville, Virginia. The Secretary of War designated
Lt. Col. Thomas Lincoln Casey of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prepare
a design for the monument and presumably for the fence that surrounded
several Jefferson family graves. Richard Von Ezdorf, a German-trained
designer who worked for the Federal Government for more then 47 years,
signed these two drawings of the cemetery fence as draftsman to the Supervising
Architect of the Department of the Treasury, one of the federal agencies
responsible for federal building projects.