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 ...

THE HISTORY OF THE US CAPITOL ROTUNDA The U.S. Capitol Rotunda was the idea of Dr. William Thornton, who won a competition for the design of the ... the original Capitol building in 1814 by ...

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 ...

Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, after the forecast bitter cold prompted planners to move the ceremony under the building's neoclassical ...

the building is one of only four skyscraper capitols in the U.S. and one of only nine capitol buildings that do not have a dome. Aside from its unique structural design, the building also has an ...

Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, after the forecast bitter cold prompted planners to move the ceremony under the building's neoclassical ...