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The historic relationship between the Cannon Building and its landscape has been restored with a central green space usable for the first time since the 1950s!
💚🔗: aoc.gov/explore-capitol-camp… #CannonRenewal #PreservationMonth
The Cannon House Office Building courtyard is now OPEN to the House community and visitors!
The courtyard is accessible from the first and second floors of Cannon.
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Architect of the Capitol (AOC) retweeted
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.@USHouseHistory Curator Farar Elliott talks about the portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette that hangs in the House Chamber. Learn about Lafayette’s historic visit to the United States before the 50th anniversary of the nation’s founding: youtu.be/Uhm0b_J0JYg
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Committee of Five loading… Delegates depicted in this #CoxCorridors sketch/mural were appointed by the Continental Congress #OTD 1776 to draft the Declaration of Independence: Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston & John Adams. 📜🇺🇸 #America250
5 Sep 2025
The #CoxCorridors feature paintings of the 16 buildings that housed the Congresses 1754-1865; it also chronicles legislative milestones of 3 centuries, 1620-1920. 🏛️📜 SEEN HERE: the First Continental Congress who met Sept. 5-Oct. 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in PA. #America250
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Since 2004, the oak has been the USA's national tree. 🇺🇸🌳 There are 40 different species of oaks on the U.S. Capitol campus, including the swamp chestnut oak. #America250
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Take a deeper look at the four large history paintings by John Trumbull in the #USCapitol Rotunda, which depict pivotal moments before, during and after the Revolutionary War.
🎬 Watch the full video: youtube.com/watch?v=_eOngbX0… #America250
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Travel back in time to 1926 with our June onsite programs! Jazz music, silent films, a world’s fair, automobiles, and a milestone anniversary. Learn how Americans celebrated 150 years of the United States with activities in Exhibition Hall.
visitthecapitol.gov/visit/sp…
ALT A person is presenting to a small group inside a museum. They are holding a tablet and standing near a sign that reads, "Today's Public Program: Object Spotlight at 10:30 a.m." In the background, there are museum displays and a sign with "Nation's Stage.
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Here is what you need to know ahead of Sunday's National Memorial Day Concert at the U.S. Capitol: bit.ly/4tQfpns
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Another view of that same lunette during the restoration process. 🎨 Our photographers use UV light to reveal details and conditions of U.S. Capitol artwork that cannot be seen under normal light: aoc.gov/explore-capitol-camp… 🔦 #PreservationMonth #USCapitolPaint
Three small areas of the corridor are left purposefully unfinished and exposed, including one original lunette, offering a striking contrast. #USCapitolPaint #PreservationMonth
Learn more: aoc.gov/explore-capitol-camp… 🎨
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Celebrating the talented mechanics throughout the U.S. Capitol campus, and also the conservation of historic windows and works of art, even those hidden in elevator shafts. ✨ #NationalElevatorMechanicsDay #PreservationMonth
19 May 2025
The first #USCapitol elevator was installed in 1873. 🛗
Today, the Architect of the Capitol's elevator mechanics maintain more than 330 across the campus. #NationalElevatorMechanicsDay
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Three small areas of the corridor are left purposefully unfinished and exposed, including one original lunette, offering a striking contrast. #USCapitolPaint #PreservationMonth
Learn more: aoc.gov/explore-capitol-camp… 🎨
This Senate passageway, one of the oldest U.S. Capitol spaces, has been restored to its original look and feel. Intricate frescoes are now visible in the arches, each shaded slightly differently to correspond to the amount of light it gets throughout the day. #PreservationMonth
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This Senate passageway, one of the oldest U.S. Capitol spaces, has been restored to its original look and feel. Intricate frescoes are now visible in the arches, each shaded slightly differently to correspond to the amount of light it gets throughout the day. #PreservationMonth
Thanks to a recent #USCapitolPaint project, this Senate corridor is now "wearing" a green chosen from its period of significance ⇢ 1859. ☘️ Before/during, and after:
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Follow guides through 200 years of history, ceremony, and art under the Capitol's dome with new our web experience, Rotunda Through History. Start your journey now! visitthecapitol.gov/rotunda-…
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NOW AVAILABLE:
The latest edition of Tholos magazine, featuring...
🧰 House Carpentry Branch Measures Up
💡 Illuminating History at the Library of Congress
🎨 #USCapitolPaint Collaboration Restores a Corridor to Its Period of Significance
🦠 USBG Safeguarding a Living Collection
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Download Volume 31, or read the stories from this and previous issues: aoc.gov/about-us/news-notice… 📖
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The Cannon Courtyard: 1913, 2002, 2016, 2026. ❇️
The historic relationship between the Cannon Building and its landscape has been restored with a central green space usable for the first time since the 1950s!
💚🔗: aoc.gov/explore-capitol-camp… #CannonRenewal #PreservationMonth
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This (deciduous) conifer tree grows a new set of feathery needles each spring. ✨ The bald cypress is native to the Southeastern U.S, and it is also the state tree of Louisiana, which joined the Union #OTD 1812. #America250
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George Washington was sworn in as the nation's first president #OTD 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York. 🇺🇸
These #CoxCorridor murals at the U.S. Capitol show the scene and the building. #America250
2 Mar 2023
The #CoxCorridors of the #USCapitol's House wing are elaborately decorated with wall & ceiling murals incl. historical scenes, portraits & maps related to the development of the U.S.
Nearby, the Hall of Columns houses part of the #NSHCollection of statuary donated by the states.
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Tulip trees were the second most frequently planted tree in the U.S. Capitol Grounds landscape by Frederick Law Olmsted. Their long straight trunks and fast growth created a dramatic architectural element in framing the view of the building. #WLAM
BLOOM ALERT! Native to the mid-Atlantic, the tulip tree is the *tallest* deciduous tree in North America. We love their fragrant flowers. 🌷
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Architect of the Capitol (AOC) retweeted
Apr 29
Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., Arlene Balkansky (former @librarycongress Reference Librarian), will discuss abolitionist Frederick Douglass and his powerful 1852 speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
View all Spirit of '76 onsite public programs: bit.ly/42CfboJ
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BLOOM ALERT! Native to the mid-Atlantic, the tulip tree is the *tallest* deciduous tree in North America. We love their fragrant flowers. 🌷
Which #USCapitol tree do you think is the biggest? 1, 2, 3, or 4.
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