Pictures of Iconic Buildings in US History

President and First Lady Theodore Roosevelt and Ingebrigt Wilhelm Schmidhofer at the Roanoke Library in North Dakota in 1919

The Roosevelt Statue of Liberty, which in 1924 was reputedly in danger of falling over in the storm.

The Roosevelt Statue of Liberty, which in 1924 was reputedly in danger of falling over in the storm.

The sculpture of Roosevelt in the Statuary Hall at the US Capitol in Washington.

The Presidential Library and Museum is located in Hyde Park in the Union Station of Raleigh.

The stone girders of the new congressional building in Capitol Hill, Washington DC. The building was completed in 1914-15.

The interiors of a former dental office (1936) and a former movie theatre (1936).

The site of a new naval depot in Texas City, along the bayou by the railroad tracks. The depot was destroyed by Hurricane Galveston in 1900 and was replaced by a new police station and firehouse (1935).

US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, left, and California Republican politician Walter Gillooly, near the Wallenberg Detention Camp of Budapest, Hungary (Aug. 6, 1952)

Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in front of his signed books at Yale University Library in 1954

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in front of a painting of her father who worked as a journalist.

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