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James Madison’s majestic home in Orange County, Virginia will be re-opened to the public this week, just two months after much it was demolished. The mansion, known as Montpelier, has been closed while work crews have begun work to restore the home to the way the nation’s fourth president to would have remembered it. This piece explains how William DuPont, Sr, tripled the size of the house in the 20th century, but when his daughter died, her will called for the home to be restored to its original form. It originally aired on WVTF Public Radio in Roanoke, and has been offered to WCVE in Richmond, as well as the Central Appalachian Public Radio Consortium.
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James Madison’s majestic home in Orange County, Virginia will be re-opened to the public this week, just two months after much it was demolished. The mansion, known as Montpelier, has been closed while work crews have begun work to restore the home to the way the nation’s fourth president to would have remembered it. This piece explains how William DuPont, Sr, tripled the size of the house in the 20th century, but when his daughter died, her will called for the home to be restored to its original form. It originally aired on WVTF Public Radio in Roanoke, and has been offered to WCVE in Richmond, as well as the Central Appalachian Public Radio Consortium.
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Aired on WVTF Public Radio in Roanoke, Virginia, on Wednesday, June 30.
Transcript
Work crews in Orange County, Virginia, one hundred miles south of
Washington DC, have demolished part of the mansion that was once the home of
America's fourth president. But the idea was not to destroy the mansion,
but to restore it to the way James Madison would have remembered it. Sean
Tubbs reports.
(Stucco removal sound) – in clear for three seconds
If James Madison were to visit his home today, he would find it in a state of tremendous disarray. Workers are slowly deconstructing the house to return it to the way it looked almost two hundred years ago. Michael Quinn, president of the montpelier foundation,
shows me around the back of the partially demolished house. We’re standing outside on a tiled floor that used to be a servants’ passage.
“The work going on over here is the work of taking the stucco off, using an air-powered tool, same tool a sculptor”
The ma...
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Review of Montpelier Renovations
This is an informative piece that refreshes your US history and gives you an understanding of all the complications that home restoration entails. The piece embodies all the a classic news feature touches: rich ambient sound, narration and interviews. The hook for boradcasting this is that Madision's home is once again open to the public after a two -month hiatus. This would also be an iteresting choice for 4th of July .