Papers from the U.S. Capitol Historical Society's first two conferences dedicated to the history and appreciation of the U.S. Capitol.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Seat of broils, confusion, and squandered thousands" : building the Capitol, 1790-1802 / William C. Allen -- Forms into architecture : reform ideals and the gauntlets of the real in Latrobe's surveyorships at the U.S. Capitol, 1803-1817 / Jeffrey A. Cohen -- Charles Bulfinch : well-connected, refined gentleman architect / Pamela Scott -- Thomas U. Walter and the search for propriety / James M. Goode -- Right-hand men : the development of the Office of Architect of the Capitol, 1865-1954 / William B. Bushong -- The historicization of the U.S. Capitol and the Office of Architect, 1954-1996 / Richard Guy Wilson -- The artist of the Capitol / Barbara A. Wolanin -- A study of Constantino Brumidi's painting technique in the Senate corridors / Catherine S. Myers -- Brumidi and the case of the mutant mantel clock : national iconography in decorative projects for the House of Representatives extension, 1855-1858 / David Sellin -- Emanuel Leutze's Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way : imagining Manifest Destiny, the "Stars and Stripes," and the Civil War / Daniel Clayton Lewis -- Albert Bierstadt : history painter for the U.S. Capitol / Kimberly A. Jones -- "Worthy of national commemoration" : National Statuary Hall and the heroic ideal, 1864-1997 / Teresa B. Lachin.