United States Capitol - Washington, DC
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N 38° 53.480 W 077° 00.675
18S E 325568 N 4306640
View of the United States Capitol Building from the northwest lawn.
Waymark Code: WMC4BE
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 07/24/2011
Views: 45
The United States Capitol has a long and complex history.
Timeline
1793 - Plan by William Thornton accepted by the commissioners and President George Washington.
1793 - The cornerstone was laid by President George Washington.
1800 - Congress, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, and the courts of the District of Columbia occupied the Capitol.
1807 - House of Representatives occupies the south wing.
1811 - South wing was completed.
1814 - British troops set fire to the Capitol.
1815 - Restoration of the Capitol begins.
1818 - Charles Bulfinch assumes the role of architect.
1819 - Supreme Court, the House, and the Senate are ready for use.
1826 - Building completed.
1851 - Cornerstone at the northeast corner of the House wing was laid by President Millard Fillmore.
1851 - Capitol's west central section, housing the Library of Congress, was gutted by fire.
1855 - Congress votes to replace the Bullfinch's Capitol dome.
1856 - Old dome removed.
1857 - House of Representatives meets in its new chamber.
1859 - Senate meets it its new chamber.
1859 - Thomas Crawford's plaster model for the Statue of Freedom, designed for the top of the new dome, arrives.
1863 - The statue place atop the new dome.
1866 - Italian-born artist Constantino Brumidi finished the canopy fresco.
1868 - Capitol extensions and the painting The Apotheosis of Washington completed.
1884 - 1891 - The marble terraces on the north, west, and south sides of the Capitol were constructed.
1958 - 1962 East front extensions constructed.
2008 - Capitol visitor's center opens.
The Capitol building is 175,170 square feet and has a floor area of approximately 16-1/2 acres. It's 751 feet 4 inches long, 350 feet at its widest and 288 feet high. The building contains approximately 540 rooms and has 658 windows (108 in the dome alone) and approximately 850 doorways.
The stamp is part of the United States definitive Flag Issue of 1975 - 1977
Stamp Issuing Country: United States
Date of Issue: March 11, 1977
Denomination: 13 cents
Color: red white and blue
Stamp Type: Single Stamp
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