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Third Floor Plan, Annex Building, Library of Congress – Vintage Wall Art

Third Floor Plan, Annex Building, Library of Congress — historic image
Third Floor Plan, Annex Building, Library of Congress. Historic image from the Library of Congress collection.

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Third Floor Plan, Annex Building, Library of Congress

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The third-floor plan of the Annex Building shows how the Library of Congress laid out its newest and largest home when the structure was taking shape in the early twentieth century. Architects drew such plans floor by floor to fix where the reading rooms, stacks, and offices would go, and this sheet lets a viewer trace the building's internal logic, from the heavy book storage that needed to be near the reading areas to the public spaces that connected them. The Annex, later named the John Adams Building, was built to relieve the crowding of the Jefferson Building, so the plan also records a deliberate effort to handle the library's rapidly growing collections.

Original scan4,096 × 3,280 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-185988

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