[Collection of 3 letters written and received by Montgomery Meigs regarding the Capitol Dome]. Decimalized.

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Collection Summary

See descriptions in GLC08246.01-.03

Collection Details

GLC#: GLC08246
Type: Header Record
Date: 1855-1859
Title: [Collection of 3 letters written and received by Montgomery Meigs regarding the Capitol Dome]. Decimalized.
Place Written: s.l.
Pagination: 3 items

Time Period

Primary time period: National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860

Sub-Era: Age of Jackson

Subjects

US Capitol

Architecture

Construction

Washington, District of Columbia

Congress

Showing 3 of 3 records

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to A.H. Bowman

07 July 1855

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

Justifies the use of an ornate molding of the Capitol Dome.

GLC08246.01

Collection Item

Letter signed

to J. Glancy Jones

24 June 1858

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

Meigs allays concerns over the Capitol Dome's stability: "There were plenty of people, who when Michel Angelo was building the Dome of St. Peter's thought it would never stand..." Jones was on the House Ways & Means Committee.

GLC08246.02

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to Montgomery Meigs

12 August 1859

Franklin, William Buel, 1823-1903

Franklin, the superintendent of construction, writes to Meigs regarding the construction costs of the Capitol Dome.

GLC08246.03

[Collection of 3 letters written and received by Montgomery Meigs regarding the Capitol Dome]. Decimalized.

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