James Madison's Montpelier
Historic House · Montpelier Station, Virginia
The Orange County plantation where James Madison grew up, read his way through several hundred books on republics before the Constitutional Convention, and returned to live with Dolley after the presidency. The duPont family later expanded the house to fifty-five rooms; a restoration finished in 2008 took all of that back off and returned it to Madison's twenty-two. The permanent exhibition on the people enslaved here is generally reckoned the best of its kind at any American presidential site.
11350 Constitution Highway, Montpelier Station, Virginia, 22957, United States
Generally 9 AM - 5 PM daily with shorter winter hours; closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. House tours are guided at set times and should be booked.
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