The Russell Senate Office was designed and executed by architect Edward Clark in 1901.
Of all the Senate office Buildings in Washington DC, the Russell Senate Office is the oldest. It was constructed between 1903 and 1908. It was in 1909 that the 61st Congress Senate used the Russell Building. Since there has been a steady growth in the number of staff and committees that need to use the building, there have been additional rooms built in the last score years. Of particular significance to this building is the Rotunda where caskets of prominent statesmen and women have been displayed for public view. The building was named after Senator Richard Brevard Russell, Jr.
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| e Dirckens Building After the completion of e Russell Building, there was the need for another building to house State Senators. is is what gave birth to the construction of the Dirksen Senate O ce Building that was named after Everett Dirksen who in 1972 was the minority leader from Illinois. e issue of space was very crucial to satisfy the needs of senators who wanted to accommodate their increasing number of sta . Another reason for wanting to create additional senate building was because Alaska and Hawaii had been added as states after the Second World War and so their senators needed accommodation. Otto Eggers and Daniel Higgins were the two architects from New York who were entrusted the task of designing the building. It was in 1958 that the new building was completed. With the dawn of the television technology, this new building was constructed in a way to accommodate those exigencies. |