Back قاعة التماثيل الوطنية Arabic National Statuary Hall German Salón Nacional de las Estatuas Spanish National Statuary Hall French היכל הפסלים הלאומי HE Sala delle Statue Italian National Statuary Hall Dutch Национальный скульптурный зал Russian

National Statuary Hall

This article is about the room in the U.S. Capitol, which until 1933 housed the entire collection. For the statue collection, which includes statues in several other parts of the Capitol, see National Statuary Hall Collection.
The National Statuary Hall in 2011

The National Statuary Hall is a chamber in the United States Capitol devoted to sculptures of prominent Americans. The hall, also known as the Old Hall of the House, is a large, two-story, semicircular room with a second story gallery along the curved perimeter. It is located immediately south of the Rotunda. The meeting place of the U.S. House of Representatives for nearly 50 years (1807–1857), after a few years of disuse it was repurposed as a statuary hall in 1864; this is when the National Statuary Hall Collection was established.[1] By 1933, the collection had outgrown this single room, and a number of statues are placed elsewhere within the Capitol.

  1. ^ "National Statuary Hall". Architect of the Capitol. Archived from the original on June 3, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2021.

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