National Capitol Columns, Present Day

ID: 2964 ~ Source: Wiki Commons ~ Date: October 2008
This file appears in: National Arboretum Historic District
National Capitol Columns, Present Day

The National Capitol Columns located at the United States National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. The columns originally supported the old East Portico of the United States Capitol (1828). They were removed during expansion of the Capitol in 1958 and placed in the National Arboretum during the 1980s.

This file appears in: National Arboretum Historic District

Although Congress passed a law authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national arboretum in DC in 1927, more than three decades passed before the U.S. National Arboretum was open to the public on a daily basis. The earliest…