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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Piehl, Janet.
The Capitol Building / by Janet Piehl.
p. cm. (Lightning bolt booksfamous places)
Includes index.
ISBN 9781575059662 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
1. United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)Juvenile literature. 2. Washington (D.C.)Buildings,
structures, etc.Juvenile literature. I. Title.
F204.C2P54 2010
975.3dc22 2008047174
Manufactured in the United States of America
1 2 3 4 5 6 BP 15 14 13 12 11 10
What is
the Capitol?
building?
large, white building. It
sits on top of a hill.
countrys laws are made.
Congress meets in the
Capitol to make those laws.
Congress meet in this
room of the Capitol.
the House of
Representatives
make up Congress.
in the Senate
chamber. Visitors
can sit in the
upper level.
D.C. Washington is the capital
city of the United States.
Government leaders make
important decisions there.
president talk about
important issues with other
government leaders.
Capitol Hill. You can see it
from all over Washington.
country in the 1790s. Its new
Congress needed a place to
meet. The government held a
contest to choose a design
for this meeting place.
Dr. William Thornton
won the contest in
1792. His design
was used to build
the Capitol.
this picture of
what he thought
the countrys
capitol should
look like.
two wings. They
were connected by
a dome.
Workers used sandstone
to build the Capitol.
Sandstone is a type of rock.
Capitol was built
when Congress
met in 1800.
had been finished.
ButCongressmetthereanyway.
by 1811. They were both
shaped like rectangles.
would connect
the two wings.
like this before a
wooden passage was
built between the
two wings.
Washington in 1814. They
set fire to the Capitol.
building was in ruins.
Capitol. They added a round
room. It is called the Rotunda.
It connects the two wings.
WorkersbuiltadomeovertheRotunda.
made of wood.
It was covered
with copper.
growing fast.
joined the nation. The new states
sent new members to Congress.
The Congress needed more space
in the Capitol. Larger wings were
built in the 1850s. They were
made of marble.
the Capitol twice as
long as it had been.
dome too. Workers finished
the new dome in 1863. It was
made of cast iron. The new
dome weighed almost
million pounds (4 million
kilograms)!
nearly complete
in this picture
from 1863.
woman stands on
top of the dome.
The statue is
called Freedom.
It is 19.5 feet
(6 meters) tall.
faces east.
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