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Montpelier
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fireplaces; rescreened and painted the doors and removed what they believe is 800 pounds of glass and broken china from the vandalized mansion.
While the daughters said they love Montpelier and have fond memories of happy times there, they said they didn't have the resources to restore it the way it shoiild be restored.
"None of us are able to restore it and we don't want it to sit here and have it fall down," said daughter Louise Fletcher Tayloe of Charlottesville.
"None of us have the money basically to restore it the way it should be," added her sister, Martha Stuart Fletcher Trope, who lives in Richmond.
Since there is no running water in the house after the vandals tore sinks off the walls and smashed toilets, the daughters have been hauling in water from a nearby tenant house to do their work.
Montpelier was vandalized some time between the afternoon of May 15 and the morning of May 20. While nothing appeared to have been stolen, an estimated $200,000 worth of damage was done. The plantation house is on the National Register of Historic Places and is on the Virginia Landmarks Register.
The community was so outraged by the vandalism that citizens and ' organizations Have pledged $33,295 for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the vandalism.
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