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The United States Capitol building features a central rotunda below the Capitol dome. Built between 1818 and 1824, the rotunda has been described as the Capitol's "symbolic and physical heart". The rotunda is connected by corridors leading south to the House of Representatives and north to the Senate chambers.
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. It is located on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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The United States Capitol. The statue crowning the dome, Statue of Freedom, is over 19 feet tall. Since 1856, the United States Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., has featured some of the most prominent art in the United States, including works by Constantino Brumidi, [1] [2] Vinnie Ream and Allyn Cox.
In 1933, Congress passed House Concurrent Resolution No. 47, which limited each state to only one statue in the Statuary Hall. Others would be distributed throughout the Capitol building. [1] In 2000, Congress amended a law to allow states to replace their statues. [2] 17 statues have since then been removed and replaced.
Further east and behind the Cannon Building is the James Madison Memorial Building (built 1971-1980, part of the adjacent Library of Congress complex) (2015) The congressional office buildings are the office buildings used by the United States Congress to augment the limited space in the United States Capitol.
A third building for the Library of Congress, the James Madison Memorial Building, opened in 1980 and the Senate's third building, the Hart Senate Office Building, was occupied in 1982. The most recent large structure within the Capitol complex is the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, which was opened in 1992.