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Hall of Columns

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Hall of Columns facing north (2007)

The Hall of Columns is a more than 100-foot-long (30 m) hallway lined with 28 fluted columns in the south wing extension of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. It is also the gallery for 18 statues of the National Statuary Hall Collection.

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History

The "Hall of Columns" emerged as part of the necessitated expansion of the north and south Capitol wings in the mid-nineteenth century due to the increased numbers of elected senators and representatives (also known as "congressmen") with the continued expansion of the United States westward and admission of more states to the Union from their previous status as Territories, now standing of 34. The original chambers of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate had become too crowded with the additional senators and representatives. Under the guidance of the then fourth Architect of the Capitol Thomas U. Walter, plans were drawn up to expand the two sides ("wings") in the previous original central block of the Capitol (also location of the rotunda and low copper-covered dome above it from the original Capitol architects: William Thornton, followed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Charles Bulfinch architectural designs beginning in 1793) and build new, larger chambers with additional rooms and offices for both houses.[1]

Capital of one of the columns.

Built directly beneath the Chamber of the House of Representatives, construction had begun sometime before 1855, with the implementation of a cast iron ceiling, forged in Baltimore by the well known local foundry Hayward, Bartlett, and Co.[2] The walls, themselves, were made with an imitation marble known as scagliola. The floor was set with imported encaustic Minton tiles from England (the same still found in the Brumidi Corridors, designed by artist Constantino Brumidi), but were eventually replaced in the 1920s with a floor of Alabama and New York marble. By 1855, all the columns, made from marble quarried from Lee, Massachusetts, were finished and set in place.[2]

The capitals of the columns are based on "Corinthian" styled columns, but adjusted to reflect an American style with the usage of thistles and native tobacco leaves in the cast iron.[2]

National Statuary Hall Collection

Older image of Hall of Columns facing north.

Notes

  1. ^ "History of the U.S. Capitol Building". Architect of the Capitol.
  2. ^ a b c "Hall of Columns". Architect of the Capitol.
  3. ^ "Gerald R. Ford Jr. Statue, U.S. Capitol for Michigan | AOC".
  4. ^ "Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (Replaced)". Architect of the Capitol.
  5. ^ "James Harlan (Replaced)". Architect of the Capitol.
  6. ^ "Mother Joseph". Architect of the Capitol.
  7. ^ "Eusebio Kino". Architect of the Capitol.

External links

Media related to United States Capitol - Hall of Columns at Wikimedia Commons

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