Now, in a grand building where memories of that ... Sturgeon referenced Thornton’s role in the Capitol’s design during a visit to the US. That same year historians and academics from the ...

The U.S. Capitol Rotunda was the idea of Dr. William Thornton, who won a competition for the design of the U.S. Capitol ... burning of the original Capitol building in 1814 by the British as ...

Library of Congress – Thomas Jefferson Building A pedestrian tunnel links the US Capitol and the Library of Congress, an Italian Renaissance-style building with allegorical mosaic murals ...