Highlights
Artist
Allyn Cox
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Year
1974
Old City Hall, later Federal Hall, in New York was the meeting place for delegates from nine colonies, who drew up a Declaration of Rights. The Stamp Act Congress, also known as the Continental Congress of 1765, met here October 7 through 25, 1765. Congress would meet here again in 1785.
About the Cox Corridors Murals
The first floor of the U.S. Capitol's House wing is elaborately decorated with wall and ceiling murals by artist Allyn Cox. Cox first executed the murals in the eastern north-south corridor, starting work in 1973 and finishing in 1974. This corridor has been termed the Hall of Capitols because it features paintings of 16 different buildings that housed the Continental and United States Congresses from 1754 to 1865.