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Citation

A guest posted the following at the bottom of the article so I moved it here.

Someone please put this citation in, I don't know how.. but it seems like this info came from this page

http://www.aoc.gov/cc/capitol/nat_stat_hall.cfm

PierceG 02:55, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Carroll

Anyone know which Charles Carroll Maryland chose to put in Statuary Hall? It is most likely Charles Carroll, Barrister or his cousin Charles Carroll of Carrollton. -Gentgeen 23:10, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

National Statuary Hall Collection says the latter. As does the Capitol website. (I don't know why we have this duplicate list.) -—wwoods 02:39, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Whisper Room

"A whisper from one side of this room can be heard across the vast space of the hall." from this page. I thought this was a notable bit of trivia that someone might want to put in a trivia section at the bottom of the article. -PierceG 00:00, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It already says, "It is said that Adams took advantage of the Hall's acoustics to eavesdrop on other members conversing on the opposite side of the room. ... This modification, along with the replacement of the original wooden ceiling (which was painted to simulate three-dimensional coffering) with the present one in the early 20th century, eliminated most of the echoes that earlier plagued the room." But it could use a fuller explanation. —wwoods 00:20, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article currently contradicts itself - the first section says that Adams did his eavesdropping trick, whereas the History section says that this is impossible because the room was carpeted in his day. I have no idea which assertion is true, but they can't both be. Piers Fletcher 10:37, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how carpet on the floor would affect reflections from the ceiling... -—wwoods 14:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is discussed in the House Historian's biweekly "history lesson" session as being apocryphal. He did not in fact listen to the opposition party from his desk. --Daysleeper47 (talk) 16:04, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded, Adams never did this. Its just a popular myth that gets repeated too often enough. ~ (The Rebel At) ~ 22:30, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Two lists

Would anyone object if I removed the list of statues from this page as they are redundant with the National Statuary Hall Collection page? --Daysleeper47 (talk) 16:04, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me since the page is linked to the collection. The room should stand on its own merits.~ (The Rebel At) ~ 22:32, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I guess if you removed the list, someone else put it back.

Today, in this article (National Statuary Hall), the list of statues includes all the statues (past and present), in a simple list. In the article National Statuary Hall Collection, the list of statues includes the current statues only, in a nicely formatted grid. Is there a good reason for both lists to exist and have such different formats and inclusion criteria? — Lawrence King ^(talk) 18:43, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"most historic"

I am removing this phrase from the introductory paragraph as it is nonsense English. Something cannot be "most historic".

a statue of Rosa Parks

just arrived, giving Alabama three statues. Wonder what this means? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:51, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

National Statuary Hall Collection says Rosa Parks is displayed in the hall but is not part of the collection, but was ordered by Congress. She is not there as one of Alabama's statues. 173.79.211.91 (talk) 05:46, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Someone just removed the removed statues

and I undid the edit because I think we should have a section for "Removed statues." Any ideas? Carptrash (talk) 15:51, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Historical inaccuracy!

Historical inaccuracy & omissions!
For many decades, and perhaps for a century, CONGRESS did not allow any of the statues to be removed from the Statuary Hall's collection, or replaced, or to be moved around. I repeat that these were forbidden by law, and one reason was to protect the structure and floors of the Capitol Building from excessive stress and strain; wear and tear. Somehow (with modern methods), Congress and the Architect of the Capitol have relented, and some of the less relevant statues have been replaced by newer figures, such as EISENHOWER.
I think that all of this is important, and that the present article takes a nonchalant attitude towards all of the issues involved. Who would like to have a stairway to collapse, or a statue to plunge through the floor somewhere?
A leg of Margaret Truman's grand piano did crash through the floor of the White House. Then the whole house was inspected, and it was decided to "gut" the whole building and give it a steel skeleton, a basement, and a subbasement! All of that took years, and in the meantime, President Truman and his family resided in Blair House.24.121.195.165 (talk) 08:33, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Arkansas

I went on the capitol tour, and the guide said Johnny Cash was the replacement for the Arkansas statue. I do not have a source for this, it was just insider knowledge from the tour. Masohpotato (talk) Masohpotato (talk) 19:09, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]