The U.S. Capitol Rotunda was the idea of Dr. William Thornton, who won a competition for the design of the U.S. Capitol ... burning of the original Capitol building in 1814 by the British as ...

Now, in a grand building where memories of that ... Sturgeon referenced Thornton’s role in the Capitol’s design during a visit to the US. That same year historians and academics from the ...

Library of Congress – Thomas Jefferson Building A pedestrian tunnel links the US Capitol and the Library of Congress, an Italian Renaissance-style building with allegorical mosaic murals ...

Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, after the forecast bitter cold prompted planners to move the ceremony under the building's neoclassical ...