Zohery Tours

Washington DC Sightseeing Tours

400 block New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20001

The Supreme Court

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In 1935 Cass Gilbert completed the construction of the United States Supreme Court. Prior to its full construction, the sessions of the court were conducted in the Royal Exchange Building in New York, and the independence and city Hall in Philadelphia when the nations Capitol was in Philadelphia. In 1800 while in the permanent capital in Washington DC, the Supreme Court was located in the capitol building. In 1929, the Chief Justice Howard Taft, who at the same time was the former president, initiated the arrangement for an independent building for the Supreme Court. He had to persuade Congress for this to happen. The US Supreme Court is the highest office in the land. After the verdict in the Supreme Court, there is no other appeal. There are nine Justices and one Associate. The Supreme Court is the judiciary branch of the government. The sitting position in the Supreme Court is according to seniority and rank. The Chief justice, who is the presiding judge always sits in the center followed by the senior associate judge. There is order in the way cases are heard in the Supreme Court. The bench sits on Mondays at about 10 am for preliminaries. The public can assist in hearing cases from 9:30-3:30 daily. When a case has been announced, copies of the ruling are available to the public 30 minutes after. The ground floor has more information for first time visitors and other relevant materials for regular visitors.

The Library of Congress

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The Library of Congress is an o shoot of the private collection of books by Thomas Jefferson. During the 1812 war when the US capitol was attacked, books on facts, statistics and laws of the United States were all burnt. Thomas Jefferson then offered to sell his books to Congress. Books were then bought from the library of Jefferson to start what has now become known as the Library of Congress.

Between 1851 and 1853, the library suffered many losses due to fire. Close to 55,000 volumes of materials were consumed by re. Ideas then dawn on law makers that the Library of Congress needed to have separate structure independent of the capitol building. That idea was put into effect by Jefferson in 1886. By 1897, the new building was ready for the general public. Today, the Library of Congress enjoys the privilege of being the most prestigious and the best equipped library in the world with over 90 million items.

The Library of Congress has about 84 million articles, 74 millions books. All these documents and articles are written in 365 languages. ere are several buildings adjacent and across the Library of Congress that constitute and extension of the library. These houses include the Madison Building and John Adams Building. In the Madison building a number of services are located within it: the copyright office, geography room, law library, presidential papers, prints and photographs. Also in the Adams building you have the African, Asian, Hebrew, Near East, Science and social science reading rooms. In one of these buildings, a short lm documentary is shown to visitors about the history of the Library of Congress. To gain access to the library and also to become a permanent member of library, you need to apply for a temporary library card or a permanent one. The services for membership cards are located on the first floor of the Jefferson building which is the main building of the library. It is the building that is located next to the Supreme Court.

Union Station

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The Union Station
Washington, DC Union Station.
Picture courtesy of Ali. Zohery.
Location: 1st and 2nd Street, NE, Massachusetts Avenue Admission: Free

Parking: Discounted Rate Parking. The red line train passes through Union Station. Trains to major cities in the US can be taken from the Union Station.

Store hours: Mondays –Saturday: 10am -9pm and Sundays: 12noon- 6pm. Contact: 202 289 1908

The Grand Tour of Washington, DC
Union Station is one of the nation’s most conspicuous multipurpose structures. It is situated in the inner circle of Washington DC. e need for all the city’s rail roads to converge in one central area brought about the creation of the Union Station. Christopher Columbus standing on the bow of the ship. In front of the Union Station we have the ags of all the States including Delawe which was the rst state and the last States to enter the union, Alaska and Hawaii. After that there are also the ags of Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoan, Northern Mariana and the Virgin Island. To the left of the Union Station is the Building named after urgodd Marshall, the rst African American appointed to the Supreme Court by Lyndon Johnson in 1967. In the middle of the circle of the Union Station is the statue of Christopher Columbus. Two architects, Daniel Burnham and Peirce Anderson were instrumental in designing the station. In 1908 the entire
building was completed. It has over the years attracted tourists, visitors and travelers in and out of Washington DC since it has been furnished with shops, restaurants, and business o ces. It is now seen as one of Washington DC busiest centers. In front of the building of Union Station, there is a memorial dedicated to Christopher Columbus by Columbus Knights. is Memorial depicts

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