rotunda
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“And that means the smaller rotunda, which now enjoys a measure of light and freedom, will have a slab behind it,” she wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Go the Capitol rotunda and look up at the dome, where Constantino Brumidi’s fresco The Apotheosis of Washington, painted during the Civil War, shows Washington in heaven, flanked by goddesses.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026
“But she walked into the rotunda and she started reading Lincoln’s words that are engraved into the wall. It was such a moving moment.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
Built in 1939 as the Floral Hall, the Ocean Room is a distinctive rotunda building, and for the past 50 years has operated as a night club and function venue.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
The most important business did not occur within the bronze doors, but in the rotunda and dim alcoves of the building—of which there were many, probably for this exact purpose.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
A famous example was a 1986 column on the Solomon R. Guggenheim’s proposal to expand its iconic Frank Lloyd Wright building by erecting a rectangular tower behind the smaller of the building’s two rotundas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Last year for Doors Open Day the Malin Group engineering firm which now inhabits one of the rotundas allowed the public to visit.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024
TV news crews often do live hits and interviews from both rotundas.
From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2019
Paschina named his Bordeaux blend Octagon, after the shape Jefferson used for the rotundas at Barboursville and at his own Monticello.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2015
Elevators shot up and down, subtracting and adding to the kaleidoscope of human life in the rotundas.
From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine
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