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CLOSE SHAVE: Mustard Seed project manager Bill Bichell crafts some of the wooden details of James Madison’s former residence.
“A lot of people said, “You won’t be able to restore it to the way it was when Madison owned it,’ “ McBride said.
After William and Annie duPont purchased Montpelier, they enlarged the house from 2,200 square feet to 5,500 square feet, added pink stucco to its exterior and replaced the wood-shingled roof with a copper one. They also changed the layouts and color schemes of several rooms and modernized the home as necessary.
Marion duPont Scott left the estate to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1984 and The Montpelier Foundation became its
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