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	Special event insurance National Statuary Hall, more information about National Statuary Hall
		The hall, also known as the Old Hall of the House, is the large, two-story, semicircular room south of the Rotunda.
		The Hall is built in the shape of an ancient amphitheater and is one of the earliest examples of Greek revival architecture in America.
		In 1850, a new Hall was authorized, and the House moved into its present chamber in the new House wing in 1857.
	www.special-events-insurance.com /National_Statuary_Hall.html (1057 words)

	National Statuary Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The hall, also known as the Old Hall of the House, is the large, two-story, semicircular room south of the Rotunda.
		The Hall is built in the shape of an ancient amphitheater and is one of the earliest examples of Greek revival architecture in America.
		In 1850, a new Hall was authorized, and the House moved into its present chamber in the new House wing in 1857.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Statuary_Hall (1100 words)

	National Statuary Hall Collection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol is comprised of statues donated by individual states to honor persons notable in their history.
		However, the aesthetic appearance of the Hall began to suffer from overcrowding until, in 1933, the situation became unbearable.
		The remainder of the statues were distributed throughout the Capitol, mainly in the Hall of Columns and the connecting corridors of the House and Senate wings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Statuary_Hall_Collection (562 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Statuary Hall, The Capitol Building, Washington DC, USA
		Statuary Hall (or the Old Hall of House) is a room in the US Capitol Building south of the Rotunda.
		The style of the hall is Greek, one of the first places in the city of Washington to use that style.
		From 1815 to 1819, the Hall was rebuilt by Latrobe and Charles Bulfinch.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A2932571 (5035 words)

	Hall, Asaph -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Hall came from an impoverished family and was largely self-taught, though he did study briefly at Central College, McGrawville, N.Y., and at the University of Michigan.
		It was discovered telescopically with its companion moon, Deimos, by the American astronomer Asaph Hall in 1877 and named for one of the sons of Ares, the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Mars.
		It was discovered telescopically with its companion moon, Phobos, by the American astronomer Asaph Hall in 1877 and named for one of the sons of Ares, the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Mars.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9038905 (854 words)

	National Statuary Hall (The Old Hall of the House)
		National Statuary Hall, also known as the Old Hall of the House, is the large, two-story, semicircular room south of the Rotunda.
		The meeting place of the U.S. House of Representatives for nearly 50 years, and now the main exhibition space for the National Statuary Hall collection, this room is one of the most historic chambers in the Capitol.
		The Hall was rebuilt in its present form by Latrobe and his successor, Charles Bulfinch, between 1815 and 1819.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/capitol/nat_stat_hall.cfm (1044 words)

	Architectural Features and Historic Spaces
		Hall of Columns--The Hall of Columns is a dramatic, high-ceilinged corridor over 100 feet long on the first floor of the Capitol's House wing.
		National Statuary Hall (The Old Hall of the House)--The House of Representatives first occupied this space south of the Rotunda in 1809 and used it as their meeting room for almost 50 years.
		In 1857 the House moved to its present chamber, and in 1864 Congress invited each state to contribute two statues of prominent citizens to a for permanent display in the room, which was renamed National Statuary Hall.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/architecture (696 words)

	U.S. Capitol Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Frances E. Willard (IL-Statuary Hall), an educator influential in social and economic reform, was the founder and president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
		In the Hall of Capitols, several nurses are shown attending Civil War casualties in the Capitol, while in Great Experiment Hall, paintings portray Jeanette Rankin working as a pacifist and Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt participating in a women's suffrage parade.
		Ream also sculpted the statue of Sequoyah (OK-Statuary Hall), the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, and Samuel J. Kirkwood (IA-Statuary Hall), a Senator and Secretary of the Interior; both statues are located in Statuary Hall.
	www.uschs.org /04_history/subs_articles/04e_07.html (1090 words)

	History of Statuary Hall - Office of the Clerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The concept of a National Statuary Hall began in the middle of the nineteenth century.
		A second rearrangement of the statues was made in 1976 by authorization of the Joint Committee on the Library to reduce overcrowding and to improve the aesthetic quality and orderliness of the physical arrangement of the National Statuary Hall Collection.
		Statues were placed in the East Central Hall of the east front extension on the first floor of the Capitol.
	www.clerkweb.house.gov /histHigh/Virtual_Tours/Statuary_Hall/index.html (383 words)

	Office of the Clerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The concept of a National Statuary Hall began in the middle of the nineteenth century.
		A second rearrangement of the statues was made in 1976 by authorization of the Joint Committee on the Library to reduce overcrowding and to improve the aesthetic quality and orderliness of the physical arrangement of the National Statuary Hall Collection.
		Statues were placed in the East Central Hall of the east front extension on the first floor of the Capitol.
	clerk.house.gov /art_history/art_artifacts/virtual_tours/statuary_hall/index.html (351 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Statuary Hall was established in 1864, and in 1881 John Brown was selected to represent Kansas as one of the statues, said Diane Good, education specialist at the Kansas State Historical Society.
		The idea was that the top two vote-getters would get their statues placed in Statuary Hall.
		It was the Glick statue that the Kansas Legislature in 1971 and 1987 voted to remove from the hall, but the folks in Washington quashed the idea.
	www.cjonline.com /fieldedFiles/011999/fame (784 words)

	Washington DC - National Statuary Hall
		THE NATIONAL STATUARY HALL is entered at the south door from the Rotunda.
		This beautiful hall was occupied by the House of Representatives until the new legislative hall, in the house extension, was completed.
		Under the arch near the dome is a large plaster figure of Liberty, by Causici, and beneath it is the American eagle with outspread wings sculptured in stone by Valperti.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles08/washington-dc-9.shtml (403 words)

	Statuary, national statuary hall, distinctive stone statuary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		STATUARY IN CEMENT - As pottery plays the leading part in history - that is, as the art and culture, even the trace of man, may be deduced from the pottery...
		Statuary is available in an assortment of materials including bronze, brass,...
		Statuary Hall Outstanding United States citizens chosen by each state arecommemorated in the National Statuary Hall at the Capitol in Washington,...
	www.teachingsupplies.org /statuary.html (791 words)

	National Statuary Hall
		The National Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C. The National Statuary Hall is located in the United States Capitol Building in Washington D.C..
		It was initially built as a second chamber for the House of Representatives, and was one of the earliest examples of Greek revival architecture in America.
		The National Statuary Hall was created by law of Congress on July 2, 1864.....
	www.singingstonestudio.com /national_statuary_hall.htm (219 words)

	NSLA - Historical Myth a Month - Getting the Facts Down Pat
		Congress created National Statuary Hall in the same year Nevada became a state, 1864, and authorized each state to submit two statues.
		On March 9, 2005, a statue of native daughter Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891), a Northern Paiute Indian activist, was dedicated in Statuary Hall.
		Of much greater importance is the false assertion on the Statuary Hall website that as "a champion of the working class, he sponsored the country's first law limiting the working day to eight hours" during his one term as a Silver-Democratic State Assemblyman from Washoe County in 1903.
	dmla.clan.lib.nv.us /docs/nsla/archives/myth/myth64.htm (1030 words)

	Unique
		When it was created in 1864 out of the meeting chamber of the House of Representatives, Statuary Hall was apparently meant to honor two Americans sent by each state.
		Representations of "famous" people are found not only in Statuary Hall and Rotunda but also "located prominently in designated areas." Hall of Columns, East Central Hall, connecting corridors of House and Senate, and vestibules.
		Riverside Church in New York, across the street from Grant's Tomb on Morningside Heights (which residents of the area in moments of euphoria call the Acropolis of America), is of itself a famous hall, and a hall of fame of sorts.
	nelsonworks.hispeed.com /Unique.html (923 words)

	Statuary Hall -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Outstanding United States citizens chosen by each state are commemorated in the National Statuary Hall at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. The space was formerly the hall of the House of Representatives.
		In 1870 she was appointed justice of the peace of South Pass City, Wyo., becoming the first woman to hold that position.
		In recognition of his missionary work, Father Damien was nominated for a place of honor for Hawaii in the National Statuary Hall in 1965.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=9277218&query=radclyffe (722 words)

	Congressman Ed Case - News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After repeated reports of Congressional staff, including one who was caught on a home video on July 11th, explaining to tourists from their home states that the reason for the statue’s location stems from punishment for being scantily clad, Case and Abercrombie told the Architect that the depiction was inaccurate and highly insulting.
		The Kamehameha statue is located in an isolated area, reportedly for structural reasons because it is the heaviest statue in Statuary Hall.
		The second is to request that you evaluate the positioning of the Kamehameha statue, which has been placed in an isolated corner of Statuary Hall since its location to the Capitol in 1969, and, if structurally possible, relocate it to a position of prominence in the Hall.
	wwwc.house.gov /case/press_releases/200366.html (1469 words)

	National Statuary Hall
		You are in: Museum of History >> Hall of USA >> National Statuary Hall
		Completed in 1807 as meeting place for the U.S. House of Representatives until their move to the House wing in 1857.
		In 1864, Congress invited each state to contribute two statues of prominent citizens for permanent display in this room, which was renamed National Statuary Hall.
	www.rutherfordbhayes.org /hallofusa/nationalstatuaryhall (60 words)

	IN-FORUM
		It is a replica of a statue erected in 1910 on the grounds of the North Dakota Capitol and the first of an American Indian woman to be placed in the Statuary Hall collection.
		Hall wore a large war bonnet during the ceremony, and traditional dancers snaked beneath the imposing, 180-foot dome of the Rotunda while performing the flag song of the Three Affiliated Tribes.
		Earlier Thursday, Hall, Pomeroy and North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven rode horseback while leading a ceremonial procession about a mile along the National Mall to the Capitol reflection pool, where four tepees had been erected for a second ceremony.
	www.in-forum.com /articles/printer.cfm?id=42265 (592 words)

	USATODAY.com - Eisenhower's path to Statuary Hall is clear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		An 1864 law allowed each state to erect statues of two people notable to its history in the Old Hall of the House of Representatives after lawmakers moved into a new, larger chamber.
		Statuary Hall holds only 38 of the collection's 97 statues — Nevada, New Mexico and North Dakota are represented by one statue each — and the others are arranged throughout the Capitol.
		After pushing through legislation approving the first-of-its-kind switch, Tiahrt spearheaded a campaign to raise the $300,000 in private donations needed to make the bronze, bring it to Washington and return Glick's statue to Topeka, where it probably will stand in the Statehouse.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2003-01-25-statue-swap_x.htm (573 words)

	Sacagawea wins a place of honor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kevin Finley of the Hadatsa Indian Nation touches the statue of Sacagawea during a ceremony in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
		It is the first of an American Indian woman to be added to the Statuary Hall collection, which dates to the 1860s.
		Hadatsa Indian Nation members take part in a ceremony in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill on Thursday to unveil a statue of Sakakawea, the Indian woman who joined the Lewis and Clark expedition nearly 200 years ago.
	www.msnbc.com /news/981450.asp?0sl=-13&cp1=1 (339 words)

	Lahontan Valley News and Fallon Eagle Standard - News
		He designed and sculpted in bronze the six-foot statue of Winnemucca which will be unveiled and installed today in Statuary Hall which, since 1960, has housed the statue of Patrick McCarran, a Nevada U.S. senator from 1930 until his death in 1954 in Hawthorne while delivering a political address at the El Capitan Club.
		Statuary Hall, which since 1864 has housed marble and bronze figures representing leading figures from the nation's states, will contain 98 statues with the installation of Winnemucca's statue today.
		The most recent statue to be placed in Statuary Hall is that of Sacagawea, representing North Dakota, a Shoshone who was the interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean in 1804 and 1805.
	www.lahontanvalleynews.com /article/20050309/News/103090006 (896 words)

	News-Star OnlineEisenhower's path to Capitol's Statuary Hall is wide open 01/26/03
		No state has ever been allowed to replace a statue in the Capitol's 139-year-old National Statuary Hall Collection.
		Eisenhower's path to Capitol's Statuary Hall is wide open
		Jim Brothers moves his statue of General Dwight Eisenhower at Heartland Art Bronze Foundry Thursday near Lawrence, Kan. The statue will replace one of Gov. George Washington Glick which is now in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
	www.news-star.com /stories/012603/New_66.shtml (358 words)

	Kids in the House - Field Trip!
		It is up to the state to decide which statue they would like to be placed in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
		The Splendid Hall: Statuary Hall, also known as Splendid Hall, was the original House Chamber.
		Statuary Hall - A History: Once the House outgrew their old chamber, how did it become Statuary Hall?
	clerkkids.house.gov /trip/hall.html (168 words)

	Station Information - National Statuary Hall
		The hall was formerly the meeting place of the House of Representatives.
		Given in 1908; located in Hall of Columns.
		Given in 1977; located in Hall of Columns.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/n/na/national_statuary_hall.html (106 words)

	ACCEPTANCE OF STATUE OF SARAH WINNEMUCCA FOR NATIONAL STATUARY HALL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As we have heard this afternoon, in 1864, the same year the State of Nevada entered this Union, the National Statuary Hall was designed and designated as a public gallery to honor notable Americans.
		Sarah is an appropriate tribute to the Silver State, and I am proud to honor her memory as the second representative from Nevada in the National Statuary Hall and in our Nation's Capital, as only the eighth woman ever to be represented.
		Yes, she be more beautiful than my shell- flower, my Thocmetony!'' Although it is not the Spirit-land of which she speaks, soon we will all be able to admire her beauty forever in Statuary Hall, and more importantly admire the beauty of her dreams and the work she did to make these dreams a reality.
	www.washingtonwatchdog.org /war_and_peace/documents/cr/05/mr/01/cr01mr05-79.html (2831 words)

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