Happy Birthday Thomas U. Walter!! Architect from Pennsylvania, Walter was born in 1804. After working for his father as a bricklayer, Walter studied architecture and was eventually appointed Architect of the Capitol. He was dean on American architecture and the fourth architect of the Capitol. He designed the Senate and House wings and the cast iron dome in place today. The inauguration of Abraham Lincoln (1861) took place beneath the unfinished dome (below)
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