The cold Virginia rain returned today, making photos of the house difficult, but I did my best. Much of the interior is bare, as they are still restoring the inside, but it was interesting nonetheless. The previous owners, the Du Pont family, gutted the inside, turning it into an art deco nightmare that the Madison Foundation is still working on reversing. They only finished with the outside restoration a year and half ago.
As for Madison's grave, on the outskirts of the property, it was quite a sight, situated in small, bricked in family cemetery surrounded by penned in wild horses. Madison's grave is the tallest obelisk on the right; his wife Dolly's is the white marble one behind it. I have plenty of traditional photos of the grave, but that's no fun...
I spent an hour and a half waiting for the wild horses to stray into frame, and this is the best i could do...
Tomorrow it's on to downtown Richmond for the graves of James Monroe and John Tyler, then, if there is absolutely no traffic, a quaint seven hour drive to Yonkers. But seeing as how on Friday I ran into three hours of traffic between Richmond and Washington, I should be home sometime around midnight.
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