Russell Senate Office Building

The Russell Senate Office Building is the oldest office building of the Senate of the United States and an important building of the Beaux -Arts style. The 1903 to 1908 constructed building is located north of the Capitol in Washington, DC.

The building has both office and committee rooms. In it, among other things, the interrogations were several important committees of inquiry instead: Watergate, the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the meetings of the Senate Committee in 1974 also debates about the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas found here in 1991 instead. .

The building originally had 98 office suites and eight committee rooms, since the cultivation of the wing in 1933 a total of 126 office suites and ten committee rooms.

Around the turn of the century, the Senate decided that the premises in the Capitol finally no longer sufficient to accommodate the Senators and their offices can. While senators had to rent privately additional office space at this time, when they thought this to be necessary, Congress mandated in 1901 to plan the former Architect of the Capitol Edward Clark fireproof office building that connected to the Capitol. 1903 bought the Congress the necessary land and gave the green light for construction to begin.

In April 1904, the architectural firm Carrère and Hastings received from New York City the construction contract. John Carrère smoothened the office building of the Senate, Thomas Hastings designed the same time built and almost identical Cannon House Office Building House of Representatives.

Your Beaux-Arts buildings joined the architecture of the Capitol, but were made ​​much more reserved. The colonnades, which are aligned to the Capitol are surrounded by 34 Doric columns at the sides of the building are pilasters. The facade are decorated in marble and limestone, the ground floor of the Russell building has a front of gray granite. The buildings were for that time very modern with an air circulation system, individual toilets, hot and cold water, equipped telephones and electricity. It is connected by tunnels and over the Congressional Subway with the Capitol.

1909 the Senate moved into the building. 1933 wing was built under the supervision of architect Nathan Wyeth and Francis P. Sullivan. Finally in 1972, Congress named the building after former Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia.

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  • Office building of the Congress of the United States
  • Built in the 1900s
  • Structure of historicism in the United States
  • Building by Person ( policy)
  • Carrère and Hastings
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