Architect of the Capitol (AOC)

Serve | Preserve | Inspire —
Stewards of the iconic buildings and grounds of #USCapitol Hill.
More AOC: 🙂 @aochiring, 🪴 @usbotanicgarden, 🎟 @visitthecapitol

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

The historic relationship between the Cannon Building and its landscape has been restored with a central green space usable for the first time since the 1950s!

💚🔗: https://t.co/zJZkoEUx9X #CannonRenewal #PreservationMonth

[House Admin. Committee GOP @HouseAdmin]

The Cannon House Office Building courtyard is now OPEN to the House community and visitors!

The courtyard is accessible from the first and second floors of Cannon.

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

Take a deeper look at the four large history paintings by John Trumbull in the #USCapitol Rotunda, which depict pivotal moments before, during and after the Revolutionary War.

🎬 Watch the full video: https://t.co/DvqjHMetla #America250

[U.S. Capitol @visitthecapitol]

Travel back in time to 1926 with our June onsite programs! Jazz music, silent films, a world’s fair, automobiles, and a milestone anniversary. Learn how Americans celebrated 150 years of the United States with activities in Exhibition Hall.

https://t.co/kjTIyYfqvx

[The U.S. Capitol Police @CapitolPolice]

Here is what you need to know ahead of Sunday's National Memorial Day Concert at the U.S. Capitol: https://t.co/TsGeOVxrQL

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

Another view of that same lunette during the restoration process. 🎨 Our photographers use UV light to reveal details and conditions of U.S. Capitol artwork that cannot be seen under normal light: https://t.co/jVXNpoxenh 🔦 #PreservationMonth #USCapitolPaint

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

Three small areas of the corridor are left purposefully unfinished and exposed, including one original lunette, offering a striking contrast. #USCapitolPaint #PreservationMonth

Learn more: https://t.co/FDHgut545e 🎨

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

Celebrating the talented mechanics throughout the U.S. Capitol campus, and also the conservation of historic windows and works of art, even those hidden in elevator shafts. ✨ #NationalElevatorMechanicsDay #PreservationMonth

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

The first #USCapitol elevator was installed in 1873. 🛗

Today, the Architect of the Capitol's elevator mechanics maintain more than 330 across the campus. #NationalElevatorMechanicsDay

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

@bretthhorton Absolutely! Thank you, Brett. 🫶 #CapitolCompliments

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

Three small areas of the corridor are left purposefully unfinished and exposed, including one original lunette, offering a striking contrast. #USCapitolPaint #PreservationMonth

Learn more: https://t.co/FDHgut545e 🎨

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

This Senate passageway, one of the oldest U.S. Capitol spaces, has been restored to its original look and feel. Intricate frescoes are now visible in the arches, each shaded slightly differently to correspond to the amount of light it gets throughout the day. #PreservationMonth

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

This Senate passageway, one of the oldest U.S. Capitol spaces, has been restored to its original look and feel. Intricate frescoes are now visible in the arches, each shaded slightly differently to correspond to the amount of light it gets throughout the day. #PreservationMonth

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

Thanks to a recent #USCapitolPaint project, this Senate corridor is now "wearing" a green chosen from its period of significance ⇢ 1859. ☘️ Before/during, and after:

[U.S. Capitol @visitthecapitol]

Follow guides through 200 years of history, ceremony, and art under the Capitol's dome with new our web experience, Rotunda Through History. Start your journey now! https://t.co/SKU8XQCu5l

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

Download Volume 31, or read the stories from this and previous issues: https://t.co/8OIWfIBj89 📖

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

NOW AVAILABLE:
The latest edition of Tholos magazine, featuring...

🧰 House Carpentry Branch Measures Up
💡 Illuminating History at the Library of Congress
🎨 #USCapitolPaint Collaboration Restores a Corridor to Its Period of Significance
🦠 USBG Safeguarding a Living Collection

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

@CosimoMorelli It is!

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

The Cannon Courtyard: 1913, 2002, 2016, 2026. ❇️

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

The historic relationship between the Cannon Building and its landscape has been restored with a central green space usable for the first time since the 1950s!

💚🔗: https://t.co/zJZkoEUx9X #CannonRenewal #PreservationMonth

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

This (deciduous) conifer tree grows a new set of feathery needles each spring. ✨ The bald cypress is native to the Southeastern U.S, and it is also the state tree of Louisiana, which joined the Union #OTD 1812. #America250

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

George Washington was sworn in as the nation's first president #OTD 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York. 🇺🇸

These #CoxCorridor murals at the U.S. Capitol show the scene and the building. #America250

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

The #CoxCorridors of the #USCapitol's House wing are elaborately decorated with wall & ceiling murals incl. historical scenes, portraits & maps related to the development of the U.S.

Nearby, the Hall of Columns houses part of the #NSHCollection of statuary donated by the states.

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

Tulip trees were the second most frequently planted tree in the U.S. Capitol Grounds landscape by Frederick Law Olmsted. Their long straight trunks and fast growth created a dramatic architectural element in framing the view of the building. #WLAM

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

BLOOM ALERT! Native to the mid-Atlantic, the tulip tree is the *tallest* deciduous tree in North America. We love their fragrant flowers. 🌷

[U.S. Capitol @visitthecapitol]

Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., Arlene Balkansky (former @librarycongress Reference Librarian), will discuss abolitionist Frederick Douglass and his powerful 1852 speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

View all Spirit of '76 onsite public programs: https://t.co/WXewbLoN96

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

BLOOM ALERT! Native to the mid-Atlantic, the tulip tree is the *tallest* deciduous tree in North America. We love their fragrant flowers. 🌷

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

Which #USCapitol tree do you think is the biggest? 1, 2, 3, or 4.

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

Which #USCapitol tree do you think is the biggest? 1, 2, 3, or 4.

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

This #ArborDay, our Urban Forester takes us on an adventure around the U.S. Capitol Grounds to search for its biggest tree: https://t.co/w9TR9IP9or 🌳