The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . THE CAPITOL, l8=iO 52 The National Capitol Capitol, or to be added thereto, for the better accommodation of the sittingsof the House of Representatives. Colonel Abert and Lieutenant Hum-phries, of the Topographical Bureau, and William Strickland, the architect, accordingly prepared a plan for the en-largement of the building by means of asouth wing extending 103^ feet and hav-ing a breadth of 152 ^ feet. No furtheraction, however, was taken by Congressat the time. On May 1, 1S50, in reply to a letterfrom Jefferson Davis, then a member o
The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . THE CAPITOL, l8=iO 52 The National Capitol Capitol, or to be added thereto, for the better accommodation of the sittingsof the House of Representatives. Colonel Abert and Lieutenant Hum-phries, of the Topographical Bureau, and William Strickland, the architect, accordingly prepared a plan for the en-largement of the building by means of asouth wing extending 103^ feet and hav-ing a breadth of 152 ^ feet. No furtheraction, however, was taken by Congressat the time. On May 1, 1S50, in reply to a letterfrom Jefferson Davis, then a member ofthe Senate Committee on Public Build-ings, architect Robert Mills submitted areport, drawings and estimates for theextension of the Capitol by means of twowings and for the enlargement of thedome. The idea of two wings seems bet-ter to have met the views of the the 28th of the same month, ChairmanR. M. T. Hunter reported a plan which,though suggested by the work of the Top-ographical Bureau, had been materiallyaltered by Mills ; and on the 19
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