The Kitchen Cabinet was a term used by political opponents of U.S. President Andrew Jackson to describe the collection of unofficial advisors. The kitchen cabinet reached its peak following his purge of the cabinet at the end of the Eaton Affair and his break with Vice President John Calhoun in 1831.
The architectural features of Monticello which is based neoclassical ideals are the following: a center hallway and a parallel set of rooms to the structure, a mezzanine bedroom floor, an interior that is centered on the two large rooms which serve as an entrance hall museum, the octagonal dome with mars yellow walls and painted green floor, ground cooled air and heated floor, a large central hall and aligned windows were designed to permit a cooling air to pass through the house, and the octagonal cupola draws hot air up and out. The Monticello is comparable to Chiswick house in London which is a neoclassical inspired house by architect Andrea Palladio built in 1726-9.
