United States Capitol Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===House and Senate Wings=== [[File:United States Capitol Building Interior 1860.png|thumb|The earliest known interior photograph of the Capitol, taken in 1860 and showing the new House of Representatives chamber]] By 1850, it became clear that the Capitol could not accommodate the growing number of legislators arriving from newly admitted states. A new design competition was held, and President [[Millard Fillmore]] appointed Philadelphia architect [[Thomas U. Walter]] to carry out the expansion. Two new wings were added: a new chamber for the House of Representatives on the south side, and a new chamber for the Senate on the north.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmo-A_8HoOM | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211029/jmo-A_8HoOM| archive-date=2021-10-29| title=The History of the United States Capitol | publisher=YouTube | access-date=February 19, 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref> When the Capitol was expanded in the 1850s, some of the construction labor was carried out by [[History of slavery in the United States|slaves]] "who cut the logs, laid the stones and baked the bricks".<ref>{{cite news | url=http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050531-110046-7574r.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050604031125/http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050531-110046-7574r.htm | archive-date=June 4, 2005 | title=Capitol slave labor studied | date=June 1, 2005 | agency=Associated Press | work=The Washington Times}}</ref> The original plan was to use workers brought in from Europe. However, there was a poor response to recruitment efforts; African Americans, some free and some enslaved, along with Scottish stonemasons, comprised most of the workforce.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.whitehousehistory.org/05/subs/05_c.html | title=Timeline | publisher=White House Historical Association | access-date=June 10, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519051655/http://www.whitehousehistory.org/05/subs/05_c.html | archive-date=May 19, 2007 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page