The Capitol Visitor Center: An Overview (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Revised Aug. 7, 2009 |
| Report Number |
RL31121 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
Stephen W. Stathis, Specialist in American National Government |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
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Summary:
The Capitol Visitor Center (CVC), now being constructed under the East FrontPlaza, is intended to enhance the security, educational experience, and comfort ofthose visiting the U.S. Capitol when it is completed in the fall of 2006. The decisionto build a subterranean facility largely invisible from an exterior perspective wasmade so the structure would not compete with, or detract from, the appearance andhistorical architectural integrity of the Capitol. The project's designers have soughtto integrate the new structure with the landscape of the East Capitol Grounds andultimately recreate the park-like setting intended by landscape architect FrederickLaw Olmsted, Sr. in his historic 1874 design for the site. The cost of the center, themost extensive addition to the Capitol since the Civil War, and largest in the worldfamousstructure's more than 200-year history, could be more than $500 million.
