United States Capitol
Meeting place of the United States Congress and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government.
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Seat of government
The seat of government is (as defined by Brewer's Politics) "the building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority".
Three sites in Washington, D.C., United States: the United States Capitol (legislative seat), the White House (executive seat), and the United States Supreme Court building (judicial seat).
Washington, D.C.
Capital city and only federal district of the United States.
The city is divided into quadrants centered on the Capitol Building, and there are as many as 131 neighborhoods.
United States Senate
Upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber.
The Senate chamber is located in the north wing of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
United States House of Representatives
Lower house of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper house.
The House meets in the south wing of the United States Capitol.
United States Congress
Legislature of the federal government of the United States.
The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Both senators and representatives are chosen through direct election, though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a governor's appointment.
Pennsylvania Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue is a diagonal street in Washington, D.C., and Prince George's County, Maryland, that connects the White House and the United States Capitol and then crosses the city to Maryland.
Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill, in addition to being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., stretching easterly in front of the United States Capitol along wide avenues.
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
About the elder Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
In his thirties, he emigrated to the new United States and designed the United States Capitol, on "Capitol Hill" in Washington, D.C., as well as the Old Baltimore Cathedral or The Baltimore Basilica, (later renamed the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary).
Neoclassical architecture
Architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France.
International neoclassical architecture was exemplified in Karl Friedrich Schinkel's buildings, especially the Altes Museum in Berlin, Sir John Soane's Bank of England in London and the newly built White House and Capitol in Washington, D.C. of the nascent American Republic.