Join one of our wonderful guides for this video tour of the U.S. Capitol.

Narration by Emily Boisvert, Visitor Guide, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center

Still Image Credits:
A view of the Capitol of Washington before it was burnt down by the British, painting by William R. Birch, image retrieved from the Architect of the Capitol, https://www.flickr.com/photos/uscapit...

United States Capitol - 1846, Plumbe, John, photograph retrieved from the Architect of the Capitol, https://www.flickr.com/photos/uscapit...

Original Pay Voucher for Philip Reid, image retrieved from the Architect of the Capitol, https://www.aoc.gov/philip-reid-and-s...

Clark Mills's Foundry, photograph retrieved from the Architect of the Capitol, https://www.flickr.com/photos/uscapit...

1863 Drawing of Scaffold for Statue of Freedom, Walter, Thomas, U., Original Architect of the Capitol, image retrieved from the Architect of the Capitol, https://www.flickr.com/photos/uscapit...

Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia. , King & Baird, E., Nast, T., Bott, S. & Umpehent, J. W. (ca. 1865), Published by S. Bott, no. 43 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Penna, photograph retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2004665360/

United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Rotunda, section, Bulfinch, Charles, Architect, Washington D.C, Between 1819 and 1828, image retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.23681

Rotunda During Civil War, 1862, Cox, Allyn, oil on canvas, 1973-1974, photograph by the Architect of the Capitol, https://www.flickr.com/photos/uscapit...

The House of Representatives, Morse, Samuel, oil on canvas, 1822 (probably reworked 1823), Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund), image retrieved from the National Gallery of Art, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-ob...

Additional photography and exterior videography by the Architect of the Capitol

Music: The People by Kyle Preston, licensed through Artist.io