Jefferson labeled this building as "l. a house 16. by 10 1/2 feet of wood, used as storehouse for nailrod & other iron" on the 1796 Mutual Assurance Plat.
Built around 1793, this 16 x 10.5-foot log structure was primarily “used as a storehouse for nailrod & other iron.” For a brief period in the 1790s, it was the site of a tinsmithing operation containing an anvil and forge. Isaac Granger Jefferson, trained by a Philadelphia tinsmith, recalled that he “carried on the tin business two years” before it failed. Archaeological evidence suggests that this structure also functioned as a small-scale nail-making operation and as living quarters for enslaved workers after the War of 1812.
Storehouse for Iron Gallery
Reconstructed Storehouse for Iron on Mulberry Row
The reconstructed Storehouse features a bellows, a forge, and an anvil based on evidence excavated by Monticello's archaeologists
Window and tool bench in the reconstructed Storehouse for Iron
Overhead view of the excavation of the Storehouse for Iron from the early 1980s