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Brumidi created the overall design for the corridors and directed its execution by artists of many nationalities. His immediate assistants included Italians Albert Peruchi and Ludwig Odense, Germans Joseph Rakemann and Henry Walther, and an English artist, James Leslie.
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The Richard Brevard Russell Senate Office Building (1903–1908) is the oldest of the Senate office buildings as well as a significant example of the Beaux Arts style of architecture.
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The Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building is the third and newest office structure designed and built to serve the United States Senate.
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The Everett McKinley Dirksen Senate Office Building was the second of three office buildings constructed for the United States Senate.
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Until the Thomas Jefferson Building opened in 1897, the Library of Congress was housed in the U.S. Capitol's west center building.
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The Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is located on 45 acres near Culpeper, Virginia, 75 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.
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The John Adams Building contains 180 miles of shelving and can hold ten million volumes. When it opened in 1939, it tripled the Library of Congress' shelving capacity.
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The Madison Building is an unusual combination of a national shrine contained in a working building serving both as the Library's third major structure and as this nation's official memorial to President James Madison.
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The Rayburn House Office Building is the third and largest office building constructed for the use of the House of Representatives; it contains three artworks depicting its namesake. It occupies a site south of the Capitol bounded by Independence Avenue, South Capitol Street, C Street SW and First
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The Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. House Office Building is the fifth office building now occupied by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Completed in the spring of 1933, the seven-story Longworth House Office Building is the second of three office buildings constructed for the United States House of Representatives.
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The Cannon House Office Building (constructed beginning in 1905 and completed in 1908) is the oldest congressional office building and a significant example of the Beaux Arts style of architecture.
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The Capitol Power Plant provides steam and chilled water used to heat and cool buildings throughout the U.S. Capitol campus.
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The Gerald R. Ford House Office Building, acquired by the Architect of the Capitol in April 1975, is the fourth of the current office buildings occupied by the U.S. House of Representatives. It is located southwest of the Capitol on city Square 581, a site bounded by 2nd Street, 3rd Street, D Street
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The hardy pecan tree was used by Frederick Law Olmsted to create shade and framing at the U.S. Capitol.
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Quercus alba (White Oak) Honoring the Vietnam Veterans of Minnesota Planted by Representative Arlen Erdahl May 11, 1982
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Commemorative Tree Quercus virginiana (Toomer's Corner Oak Scion) To Commemorate Auburn University's Toomer's Corner Oak Sponsored by Rep. Dennis Ross May 13, 2011
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Acer platanoides 'emerald queen' (Norway Maple var. Emerald Queen) In Memory of Susie Skelton Wife of Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri Planted by House Leader Nancy Pelosi October 20, 2005
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Ulmus americana 'libertas' (Liberty Elm) Planted by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy To Honor the State of Massachusetts October 22, 1993
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Quercus alba var. wye (Wye Oak) Planted by Senator J. Glenn Beall Jr. For State of Maryland April 5, 1976
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Acer rubrum (Red Maple) Planted by Senator Nancy L. Kassebaum To Honor the State of Kansas November 25, 1996
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Liriodendron tulipifera (Yellow Poplar) Planted by Congressman Charles A. Halleck (Ind.) June 11, 1961
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Cornus florida (Flowering Dogwood) Planted by Senator Sam Nunn For State of Georgia March 11, 1983
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Commemorative Tree Quercus alba (White Oak - The Charter Oak) To Commemorate the State of Connecticut Sponsored by Rep. Gary A. Franks Dedicated November 17, 1993 Replanted November 2007
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Quercus palustris (Pin Oak) To Honor Speaker Thomas Philip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. Sponsored by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi November 14, 2012
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple) Planted by Mrs. Heather Foley In Honor of Rep. Thomas S. Foley's Service as Speaker of the House December 22, 1994
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Liriodendron tulipifera (Tulip Tree) Planted by Senator Strom Thurmond (S.C.) For South Carolina Forestry Association May 26, 1981
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Hicoria alba (Carya tomentosa) (White Hickory) In Memory of Senator Willard Saulsbury of Delaware April 8, 1918
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Quercus prinus (Chestnut Oak) In Memory of Senator Thomas P. Gore April 16, 1949
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Text on the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Acer rubrum (Red Maple) planted by Senator Leverett Saltonstall (Mass.) April 28, 1954