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The Thomas Jefferson Building, also known as the Main Library, is the oldest of the Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C. Built between 1890 and 1897, it was initially known as the Library of Congress Building.
Aerial view from the United States Capitol of the five-year old Library of Congress in its new building, built 1890–1897, pictured in 1902, (since renamed in 1980) Thomas Jefferson Building for third President Thomas Jefferson, (1743–1826, served 1801–1809) Thomas Jefferson Building, built 1890–1897, the Library of Congress's main ...
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 Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the United States and second-largest library in the world with over 167 million holdings, including 39 million books and other printed recordings, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music, and 72 million manuscripts
The Library of Congress is so huge that it takes in three separate buildings on Capitol Hill; the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John Adams Building, and the James Madison Memorial Building. With ...
Dedication ceremonies were held on April 24, 1980, and the building actually opened on May 28, 1980. [3] It was decided to name the building after Madison largely because he was the person who originally suggested in 1783 that the Continental Congress form a library containing a list of books that would be useful to legislators.
The fountain is located on the west side of the Thomas Jefferson Building, the main building for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The project took three years to complete. The granite semi-circular fountain includes multiple bronze sculptures, including Neptune, his Tritons, and naiads. The fountain has been cleaned and restored on ...
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 ...