John Adams Building
The John Adams Building is the second-oldest of the buildings of the Library of Congress of the United States. Built in the 1930s, it is named for John Adams, the second president, who signed the law creating the Library of Congress in 1800.
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- …lies at an elevation of 89 feet (27 metres)
- …is wheelchair accessible
- …is operated by Library of Congress
- …is named after John Adams
- …stands 71 feet (22 metres) tall
- …has 6 floors
- Description: second oldest of the four buildings of the Library of Congress of the United States
- Address: 120 2nd Street Southeast, Washington, DC
- Also known as“Adams Building”“Congressional Library Annex”“Library of Congress Annex”“Library of Congress, John Adams Building”
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Latitude
38.88849° or 38° 53′ 19″ north
Longitude
-77.0028° or 77° 0′ 10″ west
Open location code
87C4VXQW+9V
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OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=library
OpenStreetMap feature
building=office
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ukrainian—“John Adams Building” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “John Adams Building”
- Esperanto: “Konstruaĵo John Adams”
- French: “John Adams Building”
- German: “Kongressbibliothek, John-Adams-Gebäude”
- Indonesian: “Gedung John Adams”
- Portuguese: “Biblioteca do Congresso, Edifício John Adams”
- Russian: “Здание Джона Адамса”
- Swedish: “John Adams Building”
- Tatar: “Джон Адамс бинасы”
- Turkish: “John Adams Binası”
- Ukrainian: “Будівля Джона Адамса”
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