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James Madison Memorial Building

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The James Madison Memorial Building

The James Madison Memorial Building is one of three United States Capitol Complex buildings that house the Library of Congress. The building was constructed from 1971 to 1976, and serves as the official memorial to United States Founding Father and president James Madison. It is located between First and Second Streets SE on Independence Avenue, across for the main library Thomas Jefferson Building, in Washington, D.C. In addition to various book and multimedia collections, it houses the United States Copyright Office, which is under the administration of the Librarian of Congress.[1]

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History

Statue of James Madison (1976), Walker Hancock, sculptor[2]

With the help of former Librarian of Congress Lawrence Quincy Mumford, plans for a third Library of Congress building were started in 1957.[3] Congress appropriated planning funds for the structure in 1960, and construction was approved by an act of Congress on October 19, 1965, that authorized an appropriation of $75 million (equivalent to $696 million in 2022).[3] The architect was John George Stewart (1890–1970), Architect of the Capitol. Excavation and foundation work began in June 1971, and work on the superstructure was completed in 1976.[3] The cornerstone, inscribed with the date 1974, was laid on March 8, 1974.[3] Dedication ceremonies were held on April 24, 1980, and the building actually opened on May 28, 1980.[3] It was decided to name the building after Madison largely because he was the person who originally suggested in 1783 that the Continental Congress form a library containing a list of books that would be useful to legislators.

The Architect of the Capitol was charged with the responsibility for the construction of the Madison Building under the direction of the Senate Office Building Commission, the House Office Building Commission, and the Joint Committee on the Library. The Madison building was originally designed and constructed with the intent to store books, and only after completion did they decide to use the building as office space for Library of Congress officials. These bodies also consulted with a committee appointed by the American Institute of Architects and the James Madison Memorial Commission.[4] The total authorization for construction eventually was increased to $130.675 million.

Designed by the firm of DeWitt, Poor, and Shelton Associated Architects, the James Madison Memorial Building is one of the three largest public buildings in the Washington metropolitan area (along with The Pentagon and the F.B.I.’s J. Edgar Hoover Building). The building contains 2.1 million square feet (200,000 m2) with 1.5 million feet (460,000 m) of assignable space.

On January 6, 2021, at 1:11 p.m. EST, the Madison Building and the Cannon House Office Building were the first buildings in the Capitol Complex to be ordered to evacuate as rioters breached security perimeters before storming the Capitol building.[5][6][7] Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said two days later that rioters did not breach any of the Library's buildings or collections and that all staff members had been safely evacuated.[8]

Reading rooms

Madison Building

The Madison Building is home to many of the reading rooms of the Library of Congress:

  • Geography and Map Room
  • Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room
  • Manuscript Reading Room
  • National Digital Library Learning Center
  • Performing Arts Reading Room
  • Recorded Sound Research Center
  • Law Library Reading Room (Law Library of Congress)
  • La Follette Congressional Reading Room (closed to the public)
  • Prints and Photographs Reading Room
  • Motion Picture and Television Reading Room
  • Mary Pickford Theater, which hosts regular free screenings of classic and contemporary movies and television shows
  • Copyright Public Records Reading Room of the United States Copyright Office

See also

References

  1. ^ National Capital Planning Commission (2012). James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress. Retrieved May 4, 2021. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "James Madison Statue". Architect of the Capitol. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e Cole, John Y. (2008). "The James Madison Memorial Building". On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress. Nancy De Sa and Julie Mangin, Network Development and MARC Standards Office. Washington, D.C. hdl:2027/mdp.39015073632757. ISBN 978-0-8444-1200-9. LCCN 2007051744. OCLC 187300202. OL 16383280M.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ "FG 246 (James Madison Memorial Commission) (White House Central Files: Subject Files)". Prepared for the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California.
  5. ^ Budryk, Zack; Lillis, Mike; Coleman, Justine (6 January 2021). "Capitol placed on lockdown, buildings evacuated amid protests". The Hill. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Timeline: How a Trump mob stormed the US Capitol, forcing Washington into lockdown". USA Today. 8 January 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  7. ^ @sarahnferris (6 January 2021). "WOW Hill staff just got this alert "Madison: EVACUATE. Proceed to your designated assembly area. USCP"" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  8. ^ Hayden, Carla (January 8, 2021). "Thoughts on this week's unrest" (PDF). The Library of Congress Gazette. 32.

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