When it opened in 1897 the Library of Congress was the most lavishly ornamented public building in America, and this walks through it: the architecture, the fifty painters and sculptors employed and what each contributed, the mosaics and inscriptions — with Charles Caffin’s essays on the art and Spofford’s on what a national library is for.
A guide to the Library of Congress written the year it opened. Download the free EPUB.