Month: June 2025

“All roads lead to the Capitol” since it is the dividing center for quadrants of the city.

The Court really didn’t have a fully functional home until 1935. The Court was in various locations before the Civil War, and it was housed in the Old Senate Chamber from 1861 to 1935. The chamber wasn’t spacious; the Justices ate lunch in the robing room. Chief Justice William Howard Taft led the drive for a Supreme Court building in the 1920s.

It’s bigger than you think! Although it’s relatively modest in terms of today’s sprawling mansions, the White House was the country’s biggest house until after the American Civil War. It has 132 rooms and 35 bathrooms on six levels, as well as 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases, and 3 elevators. It is 168 feet long by 85 feet wide (without porticoes), 70 feet tall on the south side and 60 feet 4 inches tall on the north side. The building and grounds are sprawled across 18 acres.