The Library of Congress is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C..[1] The oldest of the four Library of Congress buildings, the Thomas Jefferson Building was built between 1890 and 1897. The building's main architect was Paul J. Pelz, initially in partnership with John L. Smithmeyer, and succeeded by Edward Pearce Casey during the last few years of construction. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.[2]
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The Library of Congress is featured in Crypt of Civilization.
The front facade cracks.
It was introduced in 5 years after people when everything is quiet at the world largest library. The episode shows its history, stating that it contains nearly 142 billion items, making it 650 miles or 1046 km of shelves. These items include Mathew Brady's Civil War photographs and the personal items of Abraham Lincoln carrying on the day he was shot. After people, the swamp creatures have return to the former capital of man.
The fate is revealed in 500 years after people when man tried to preserve their civilization and libraries but libraries are always vulnerable, especially where the memory of the past is available to all. The show gave information that the original Library of Congress was burned by the British during the War of 1812 and the aftermath being 3,000 books on law, economics, and history to be lost. After 500 years, the dome of the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building which is completed 1897 and rising 160 feet, sits over the swampland and is putting too much strain on the supporting walls. Tanya Komas stated that because the way all domes are constructed, there is a weak point at the base of the dome where it wants to expand causing it to push down and expand out.
The fate is then revealed when the pressure becomes too great for the dome to bear with concrete no longer resist the reticule of gravity as the supporting walls begins to collapse, before the dome falls into the library below in a shattering surrender while destroying the main reading room inside.
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