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The John Adams Building of the Library of Congress. The John Adams Building is the second oldest of the buildings of the Library of Congress of the United States.Built in the 1930s, it is named for John Adams, the second president, who signed the law creating the Library of Congress in 1800.
The Library of Congress was established on April 24, 1800, when President John Adams signed an act of Congress that included appropriating $5,000 "for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress ... and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them."
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It is adjacent to the library's additional buildings in the Library of Congress complex, the John Adams Building (built in the 1930s) across Second Street, and the James Madison Memorial Building (built in the 1970s) across Independence Avenue to the south.
The last building constructed within the complex in this decade was the Library of Congress Annex, now named the John Adams Building, which opened in 1939. Within twenty years, attention returned to the need for more Congressional office space; this led to the construction of a second building for the Senate (now named the Dirksen Senate Office ...
On April 24, 1800, the 6th United States Congress passed an appropriations bill signed by President John Adams which created the Library of Congress. [7] This law was to serve a "further provision for the removal and accommodation of the Government of the United States".
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 ...
John Adams. 2001: John Adams: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography – 2002 [1] Presentation by McCullough on John Adams at the Library of Congress, April 24, 2001, C-SPAN Presentation by McCullough on John Adams at the National Book Festival, September 8, 2001, C-SPAN: 1776: 2005: American Revolution, American Revolutionary War