Stone Preservation on Capitol Hill
Stone preservation across Capitol Hill is a top priority for the Architect of the Capitol, as nearly every building is enveloped in stone, and all have problems.
Weather, age and deferred maintenance are destroying many of the finer details of these awe-inspiring stone edifices and causing safety concerns. Addressing this problem across the Capitol campus takes a team of historic preservationists, structural engineers and stonemasons. Numerous projects are underway, or planned, to restore and preserve these historic buildings.
Learn more at www.aoc.gov/stone.
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Today, there are more than 2,000 AOC employees serving around the clock in diverse roles to maintain and preserve the buildings and grounds. Iconic landmarks under our care include the U.S. Capitol, Capitol Grounds, Capitol Visitor Center (@visitthecapitol), House office buildings, Library of Congress, Senate office buildings, Supreme Court buildings and @UnitedStatesBotanicGarden.
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I was fortunate to work in the Capitol, Library of Congress and several of the House and Senate buildings during my career with elevators . The Capitol is by far the grandest and biggest and my personal favorite. The art work alone puts most individual museums to shame in quality and quantity of the items when compared side by side. We should move the actual government to the middle of the nation where it is possible to have real security and space to protect all involved. Take all of those grand buildings and keep them as museums.
Thank you for preserving our history!
A full length documentary would be awesome, tell us what kind of stones need treatment, and how do you treat them, and what are the processes involved - like 3D scanning, printing? Pre-cast plaster?
@amandainthelibrary
10 күн бұрын
How are you cladding the cleaned and finished and/intact parts?
thank you Franco Divalentin for taking care of America's, finest piece of History!
@John_Grozny
8 жыл бұрын
America's, finest piece of History it's fake.
I visited this great monumental building a couple of days back. I just feel in love with the capitol building and the national mall area :)
The Capitol Building is so beautiful, I feel lucky to have visited a couple of times. Would love to go again!
Awesome. Thank you to the entire team for the incredible work that you are doing.
as a student of architecture/ builder i can truly appreciate the work that it takes to maintain the Capitol. thank you all for your commitment.
Thank you Ladies and Gentlemen for your dedication to our most sacred Building!
Cool
One of my profs form way back said parts of the capitol were built out of sandstone from near Fredericksburg, VA which is a very soft sandstone and that’s why the building is painted to prevent weathering. Is this true?
Strange you look at Egyptian outbuildings and sculptures and a lot of them have done amazingly well obviously choice of stone matters in longevity
I guess now our country is going to have to start doing what countries in Europe have been doing for hundreds of years
@marcuswardle3180
3 жыл бұрын
A lot of the cathedrals, especially here in the U.K., have undergone massive work to the stonework. A lot of this due to acid rain caused by industrialisation. I know that the job of historical stonemason has become never ending!
Those buildings are only thing left of the civilization before us. Before we waltzed in and took over
its so sad there are only 11 comments after last week
The first and last song, who is it?
@benjaminhawkins1026
5 жыл бұрын
Seth Duncan idk, it was probs made exclusively for the video.