An Eastern Washington University faculty member who grew up in Virginia and has always been fascinated with Thomas Jefferson is building a home that looks like Jefferson’s Monticello. Dan Sisson has spent more than a dozen years working on what he calls 'Monticello West'. The Spokesman-Review reports Sisson is using reclaimed materials such as salvaged bricks. The home sits on land near Ford between state property and the Spokane Indian Reservation. Lifelong dream: Eastern Washington University faculty member Dan Sisson grew up in Charlottesville near the Montecillo, and has been building his own in Ford, Washington, since the early 1990s
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Thomas Jefferson started building his 5,000-acre Monticello plantation in Charlottesville, Virginia, aged 26 in 1776
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The neoclassical residence is widely regarded as the most beautiful piece of architecture in the United States
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Historian Dan Sisson started building his own replica in Ford, Washington, in the early 1990s
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Whole home is from reclaimed materials
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Construction is about 80 percent complete
When it came time to the build the iconic dome that sits atop the Monticello, @placeholder was quoted $55,000.