<P> First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln hangs over the west staircase in the Senate wing . </P> <P> The Capitol also houses the National Statuary Hall Collection, comprising two statues donated by each of the fifty states to honor persons notable in their histories . One of the most notable statues in the National Statuary Hall is a bronze statue of King Kamehameha donated by the state of Hawaii upon its accession to the union in 1959 . The statue's extraordinary weight of 15,000 pounds (6,800 kg) raised concerns that it might come crashing through the floor, so it was moved to Emancipation Hall of the new Capitol Visitor Center . The 100th, and last statue for the collection, that of Po'pay from the state of New Mexico, was added on September 22, 2005 . It was the first statue moved into the Emancipation Hall . </P> <P> On the ground floor is an area known as the Crypt . It was intended to be the burial place of George Washington, with a ringed balustrade at the center of the Rotunda above looking down to his tomb . However, under the stipulations of his last will, Washington was buried at Mount Vernon . The Crypt houses exhibits on the history of the Capitol . A compass star inlaid in the floor marks the point at which Washington, D.C. is divided into its four quadrants and is the basis for how addresses in Washington, D.C., are designated (NE, NW, SE, or SW). However, due to the retrocession of the Virginia portions of the District, the geographic center of the city lies near the White House . </P> <P> Within the Crypt is Gutzon Borglum's massive Abraham Lincoln Bust . The sculptor had a fascination with large - scale art and themes of heroic nationalism, and carved the piece from a six - ton block of marble . Borglum carved the bust in 1908, and it was donated to the Congress by Eugene Meyer, Jr., and accepted by the Joint Committee on the Library, in the same year . The pedestal was specially designed by the sculptor and installed in 1911 . The bust and pedestal were on display in the Rotunda for many years until 1979 when, after a rearrangement of all sculpture in the Rotunda, they were placed in the Crypt . Borglum was a patriot; believing that the "monuments we have built are not our own," he looked to create art that was "American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement", according to a 1908 interview article . Borglum's depiction of Lincoln was so accurate, that Robert Todd Lincoln, the president's son, praised the bust as "the most extraordinarily good portrait of my father I have ever seen ." Supposedly, according to legend, the marble head remains unfinished (missing a left ear) to symbolize Lincoln's unfinished life . </P>

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