Many important events took place in this Chamber while it served as the Hall of the House. It was here in 1824 that the Marquis de Lafayette became the first foreign citizen to address Congress. Presidents James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Millard Fillmore were inaugurated here.
National Statuary Hall
The Statuary Hall is built in the shape of an ancient amphitheater and is one of the earliest examples of Greek revival architecture in America. A lantern in the ceiling admits natural light into the Hall and a neoclassical plaster Liberty and the Eagle looks out over the Hall from a niche above the colonnade behind what was once the Speaker's rostrum.