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E PLURIBUS UNUM —
OUT OF MANY, ONE

HISTORY OF CONGRESS
AND THE CAPITOL

Competition of 1850-1851

Winning Design for the Capitol Extension, by Thomas U. Walter, 1851.

Winning Design for the Capitol Extension, by Thomas U. Walter, 1851.

 

Winning Design for the Capitol Extension, by Thomas U. Walter, 1851

The addition of wings to the Capitol tripled the building’s size.

Thomas Ustick Walter Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

 
History of Congress and the Capitol