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Category: John Adams Building

photograph of a sculpted bronze relief of Quetzalcoatl

Quetzalcoatl

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

Artist Lee Lawrie’s figures on the Adams Building bronze doors provide us with an opportunity to highlight important mythical and heroic figures that helped promote the written word. For Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month we highlighted the figure of Brahma. It seems only fitting that for Hispanic Heritage Month we feature the bronze image of the …

Silver stylized owl with radiant circles around its head, surrounded by a gold frame

Pic of the Week: Under Construction

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Labor Day weekend starts in a few hours so I thought I would feature a photograph of the Adams Building (then known as the Library of Congress Annex) while it was under construction. Funds for the construction of the building were appropriated in 1930, with an additional appropriation in 1935.  It was mentioned in in …

Silver stylized owl with radiant circles around its head, surrounded by a gold frame

Pic of the Week: Sunburst Grille

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

  The title of our blog post this week is “Sun Spots this Summer?” so we are highlighting one of the architectural grilles that resembles  a sunburst design. These grilles typically disguise the Adams Building’s ventilation system and are visible throughout the building. This one is a bit hard to spot (no pun intended!), since it …