On September 18, 1793, George Washington laid the cornerstone of the United States Capitol building, the home of the legislative branch of American government. The building would take nearly a century to complete. The United States Capitol, a beautiful example of 19th century neoclassical architecture, was completed in 1863. To the top of its Stature of Freedom, the capitol building is 288 ft. tall, and covers a ground area of 175,170 square feet, or about 4 acres. But then it did not look much like our present capitol building.
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