Library of Congress
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- the city beautiful
The Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building, completed in 1897, is documented as the most lavish Beaux-Arts interior in Washington. It serves as the national library of the United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
the building
The Jefferson Building interior. Completed in 1897, the Thomas Jefferson Building is recognized for having the most lavish Beaux-Arts interior anywhere in the capital, the showpiece of the library's three-building campus.
the style
The building is worked in the Beaux-Arts style, prized here above all for the richness of its interior treatment rather than its exterior alone.
More on Beaux-Artssignificance
The building is a DC Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the home of the national library of the United States.
nearby
- Thomas Jefferson Building
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Supreme Court
- House Office Building (Cannon House Office Building)
- Saint Mark's Church
- Hiram W. Johnson House