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1. LOCADA_210117_25.JPG: Star Spangled Banner National Historic Trail The Capitol in Flames The US Capitol was the British troops' first target when they arrived in Washington on August 24, 1814, only hours after their afternoon victory at the Battle of Bladensburg. The invaders fired rockets through the Capitol's windows. When the building's iron-plated ceiling prevented the fires from spreading, the attackers burst inside, piled up furniture, draperies, and other combustibles, and fired a rocket into the mess. The result was a fire so intense that it melted glass light fixtures. Temporary Quarters: The burning of the Capitol, where Congress had voted to declare war on Great Britain in June 1812, left the legislators homeless. So they reunited at the Patent Office, at Seventh and F Streets, NW. On February 16, 1815, Congress ratified the Treaty of Ghent (and the war's end) at the Patent Office. "I had no objection to burn[ing] arsenals, dockyards, frigates building, stores, barracks. etc ... but we were horrified at the order to burn the elegant houses of Parliament." -- British Captain Henry Smith
2. LOCADA_210117_28.JPG: Temporary Quarters: The burning of the Capitol, where Congress had voted to declare war on Great Britain in June 1812, left the legislators homeless. So they reunited at the Patent Office, at Seventh and F Streets, NW. On February 16, 1815, Congress ratified the Treaty of Ghent (and the war's end) at the Patent Office.
3. LOCADA_210117_29.JPG: The Patent Office, temporary meeting place of Congress
4. LOCADA_210117_38.JPG: A historical illustrator imagines the burning of the Library of Congress.
5. LOCADA_210117_41.JPG: Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail Destroying the Library The original Library of Congress occupied a room in the US Capitol. When British troops burned the Capitol in 1814, the collection was destroyed. After the war Thomas Jefferson helped re-establish the library by selling to Congress at a discount some 5,500 of his own books. President James Madison appointed local editor and writer George Watterston as the first full-time Librarian of Congress. A Returned Souvenir: In 1940 a collector sent the Library of Congress a book titled, RECTs & EXPENDs [receipts and expenditures] U.S. FOR 1810. It survived the British burning of the library in 1814 because British Rear Admiral Cockburn took it for a souvenir. He inscribed it, "Taken in President's room in the Capitol of Washington 24th August 1814."
6. LOCADA_210117_44.JPG: Star Spangled Banner National Historic Trail The Capitol in Flames The US Capitol was the British troops' first target when they arrived in Washington on August 24, 1814, only hours after their afternoon victory at the Battle of Bladensburg. The invaders fired rockets through the Capitol's windows. When the building's iron-plated ceiling prevented the fires from spreading, the attackers burst inside, piled up furniture, draperies, and other combustibles, and fired a rocket into the mess. The result was a fire so intense that it melted glass light fixtures. Temporary Quarters: The burning of the Capitol, where Congress had voted to declare war on Great Britain in June 1812, left the legislators homeless. So they reunited at the Patent Office, at Seventh and F Streets, NW. On February 16, 1815, Congress ratified the Treaty of Ghent (and the war's end) at the Patent Office. "I had no objection to burn[ing] arsenals, dockyards, frigates building, stores, barracks. etc ... but we were horrified at the order to burn the elegant houses of Parliament." -- British Captain Henry Smith
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Wikipedia Description: John Adams Building
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The John Adams Building is one of three library buildings of the Library of Congress in the United States. The building was originally built simply as an annex to the Library's Main Building (the Thomas Jefferson Building). It opened its doors to the public on January 3, 1939. It is located on Second Street SE between Independence Avenue and East Capitol Street in Washington, DC.

History

The idea to construct a new library building was presented to the United States Congress in 1928 at the urging of Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam. The bill was sponsored by U.S. Representative Robert Luce, chairman of the House Committee on the Library. On June 13, 1930, $6.5 million was appropriated for the building's construction, for a tunnel connecting it to the Main Building, and for changes in the east front of the Main Building, including the construction of a Rare Book Room. An additional appropriation approved on June 6, 1935, brought the total authorization to $8,226,457.

Architect of the Capitol David Lynn took charge of the project and commissioned the Washington, D.C. architectural firm of Pierson & Wilson to design the building, with Alexander Buel Trowbridge as consulting architect. The contract stipulated completion by June 24, 1938, but the building was not ready for occupancy until December 2, 1938. The move of the Card Division started on December 12, and it opened its doors to the public in the new building on January 3, 1939.

The building is five stories in height above ground, with the fifth story set back 35 feet (11 m). It contains 180 miles (290 km) of shelving (compared to 104 miles (167 km) in the Jefferson Building) and can hold ten million volumes. There are 12 tiers of stacks, extending from the cellar to the fourth floor. Each tier provides about 13 acres (53,000 m2) of shelf space.

On April 13, 1976, in a ceremony at the Jefferson Memorial marking the birthday of Thomas ...More...
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