The Progress of Civilization is a marble pediment above the entrance to the Senate wing of the United States Capitol building designed by the sculptor...

Columbian Exposition. The Progress of Civilization Pediment on the United States Capitol building. The Genius of America Pediment on the United States Capitol...

enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts. It describes either of two situations: where a weak executive branch of a government...

Architect of the Capitol. Archived from the original on September 19, 2024. Retrieved September 7, 2024. "Progress of Civilization Pediment". Architect of the...

HIV/AIDS during the height of the AIDS epidemic. Designed by artist William Cochran, the sculpture is composed of 370 layers of float glass that changes...

congressional office building for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., between South Capitol Street and...

First among these was a marble pediment bearing life-size figures symbolical of the progress of American civilization; next in order came a bronze figure...

down the cornerstone to the north wing of the building. Upon the death of Washington in 1799, the designers of the Capitol went to Martha Washington and...

The Surrender of General Burgoyne is an oil painting by the American artist John Trumbull. The painting was completed in 1821 and hangs in the United States...

The John Adams Building is the second-oldest of the buildings of the Library of Congress of the United States. Built in the 1930s, it is named for John...

The subway system of the United States Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., consists of three underground electric people mover systems that connect the...

in the U.S. Capitol building used by members of the Senate and by a few senior members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Their locations are unlisted...

the board of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) and continue to oversee operations of the memorial: Concerns of Police Survivors;...

dome from the top of the building's pediment. The third Architect of the Capitol, Charles Bulfinch, altered the exterior profile of the plans still further...

District of Columbia. The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative branch of the federal...

is a large marble sculpture group which was assembled in front of the east façade of the United States Capitol building and exhibited there from 1853...

building in Washington, D.C., that houses offices of both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is named after...

adopted by both houses of a bicameral legislature that lacks the force of law (is non-binding) and does not require the approval of the chief executive (president)...

The Russell Senate Office Building is the oldest of the United States Senate office buildings. Designed in the Beaux-Arts architectural style, it was built...

John J. Pershing General of the Armies, is a public artwork by American artist Robert White, located at the National World War I Memorial in Washington...

James Madison Memorial Building is one of three United States Capitol Complex buildings that house the Library of Congress. The building was constructed...

2021. Spirit of Progress and Civilization Pediment, from SIRIS. Bond of Postal Union, from SIRIS. Louise Todd Ambler, et al., The Sculpture of Walker Hancock...

Emancipation Group is a monument in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln Memorial" before...

was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1994. The fountain, reminiscent of 16th century Italian villas, focuses...

Chinatown, Washington, D.C., United States. It is one of the largest ceremonial arches outside of China. Planning for an archway began in 1984, to be jointly...

East below the landscaped tree-shaded grounds of the East Front of the Capitol and included the development of the surface plaza (which formally served as...

resolution of both houses of congress, including the lying in state of honored dead. William Thornton, a physician and architect, was the winner of the contest...

Party divisions of United States Congresses have played a central role on the organization and operations of both chambers of the United States Congress—the...

named in honor of silent film star Mary Pickford, is the "motion picture and television reading room" of the United States' Library of Congress in Washington...

The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis is an oil painting by John Trumbull. The painting, which was completed in 1820, now hangs in the rotunda of the United States...