Identifier: storyofwashingto00todd (find matches)
Title: The story of Washington, the National Capital
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Todd, Charles Burr, 1849-
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam's Sons : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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acter of the old Hall by making it aPantheon for the statues of the great and good menof the nation. That body in 1864 authorized thePresident to invite each State to contribute theefifigies of two of her chosen sons in marble or inbronze, to be placed permanently here. But sevenStates have thus far accepted the invitation. RhodeIsland was the first, selecting as her two greatestmen Roger Williams and General Nathaniel Greene ;Connecticut came next, presenting the statues ofGovernor Jonathan Trumbull and Roger Sherman ;New York chose Governor George Clinton and Chan-cellor Robert R. Livingston ; Massachusetts, Gov-ernor John Winthropand Samuel Adams; Vermont,Colonel Ethan Allen and Jacob Collamer; Maine,Governor William King; Pennsylvania, Robert Ful-ton and William Muhlenburg. Eleven of thestatues are of marble and two of bronze; all, ascompared with the earlier works of art exhibitedhere, show a creditable advance in taste and culture.When the remaining States have contributed their
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2IO THE STORY OF WASHINGTON-. quota we shall have a National Hall of Statuary ofwhich no American need be ashamed. Here alsothere are statues and works of art contributed bythe national government worthy of mention. Thesecomprise Vinne Ream Hoxies marble statue ofLincoln, executed in 1870; a plaster copy of Hou-dons statue of Washington ; Horatio Stones marblestatue of Hamilton ; and a bronze statue of Jeffer-son by DAngers. There are also busts of Lincoln,Kosciuski, and Crawford ; portraits of Washington,Jefferson, Lincoln, Carroll of CarroUton, and others.From the Hall of Statuary we pass through thecorridor before mentioned, connecting the Houseextension with the main Capitol, and are at the doorof the House of Representatives. If the House isin session we shall find here an official—the Door-keeper,—who permits no one to enter except he be amember, or one of the privileged few who have theentree of the House. If it is not in session, however,we can enter and study the chamber

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