Mark VanDyke Photography
Fire on Capitol Hill
U.S. Capitol Building & Christmas Tree
Washington, District of Columbia
Accessed via Constitution Avenue
Date Taken: December 15, 2012
According to the website, Architect of the Capitol:
"Today, the U.S. Capitol Building covers a ground area of 175,170 square feet, or about 4 acres, and has a floor area of approximately 16-1/2 acres. Its length, from north to south, is 751 feet 4 inches; its greatest width, including approaches, is 350 feet. Its height above the base line on the east front to the top of the Statue of Freedom is 288 feet; from the basement floor to the top of the dome is an ascent of 365 steps. The building contains approximately 540 rooms and has 658 windows (108 in the dome alone) and approximately 850 doorways."
The United States Capitol building is an icon of Washington D.C. and the nation, playing host to the Senate and the House of Representatives. President George Washington selected the neoclassical architecture of the Capitol in 1793. The United States Capitol building is situated at the far eastern end of the National Mall; the Washington Monument is situated 1.4 miles directly west; the Lincoln Memorial some 2.2 miles directly west. This particular morning the sky was heavily overcast and allowed for only the first pre-dawn light to infiltrate and color the sky, casting a strange pink/purple hue on the cloud cover. Shortly after the skies turned the typical overcast steely gray of winter.
Happy Holidays to all of my Flickr contacts here in the United States!
Fire on Capitol Hill
U.S. Capitol Building & Christmas Tree
Washington, District of Columbia
Accessed via Constitution Avenue
Date Taken: December 15, 2012
According to the website, Architect of the Capitol:
"Today, the U.S. Capitol Building covers a ground area of 175,170 square feet, or about 4 acres, and has a floor area of approximately 16-1/2 acres. Its length, from north to south, is 751 feet 4 inches; its greatest width, including approaches, is 350 feet. Its height above the base line on the east front to the top of the Statue of Freedom is 288 feet; from the basement floor to the top of the dome is an ascent of 365 steps. The building contains approximately 540 rooms and has 658 windows (108 in the dome alone) and approximately 850 doorways."
The United States Capitol building is an icon of Washington D.C. and the nation, playing host to the Senate and the House of Representatives. President George Washington selected the neoclassical architecture of the Capitol in 1793. The United States Capitol building is situated at the far eastern end of the National Mall; the Washington Monument is situated 1.4 miles directly west; the Lincoln Memorial some 2.2 miles directly west. This particular morning the sky was heavily overcast and allowed for only the first pre-dawn light to infiltrate and color the sky, casting a strange pink/purple hue on the cloud cover. Shortly after the skies turned the typical overcast steely gray of winter.
Happy Holidays to all of my Flickr contacts here in the United States!