National Statuary Hall

National Statuary Hall in 2016
Members of the 99th Fighter Squadron at Tuskegee University. The United States' first squadron of African Americans being honored at the National Statuary Hall, 2007.

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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