# 2 -- Old Town Trolley Tours

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Trolley Stop U.S. Capitol U.S. Supreme Court Library of Congress

• U.S. Capitol • U.S. Supreme Court • Library of Congress

US Supreme Court

Building Hours & Entrances

Monday – Friday (except Federal Holidays)

9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Closed on Saturday and Sunday

Visitors may enter the building from the Plaza doors located on each side of the main steps. A wheelchair accessible ramp is located along Maryland Avenue on the left side of the building. Click here for a graphic showing the Visitor Entrance.

All visitors must pass through security screening before entering the building. During the months of March – June, visitors should anticipate longer wait times to enter the building due to larger crowds visiting the Nation’s Capital.

Please Note: If you are planning to visit the Supreme Court between August 6 and August 27, the Courtroom will be closed for annual cleaning. Courtroom Lectures will not be offered during this period. When activity permits, the doors to the Courtroom will be open to allow visitors to view the room. The building will remain open to the public, and visitors may view the visitors’ film and exhibitions or visit the gift shop.

Library of Congress

The Thomas Jefferson Building

The Library of Congress was established by an act of Congress in 1800 when President John Adams signed a bill providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington. The legislation described a reference library for Congress only, containing "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress -- and for putting up a suitable apartment for containing them therein..

The Great Hall

When its doors opened to the public in 1897, the Library of Congress represented an unparalleled national achievement, the "largest, costliest, and safest" library in the world.

Its elaborately decorated interior, embellished by works of art from nearly fifty American painters and sculptors, linked the United States to classical traditions of learning and simultaneously flexed American cultural and technological muscle.