Address: 1 First Street Northeast, Washington, DC
Architect: Cass Gilbert (he is best known for designing the Woolworth Building in New York)
Height: 92 feet, or five stories
Construction began: October 13, 1932
Construction finish: 1935, took 3 years
Construction costs: 9.74 million U.S. dollars
Made of: Marble, mostly from Vermont, Georgia and Alabama, but the marble for the 24 columns in the room was special ordered from Italy.
What's inside:
Basement: maintenance, parking, mail room
Ground floor: cafeteria, gift shop, Clerk's Office
2nd floor: The Great Hall, the hall, conference room, offices of judges (except one)
3rd floor: 1 judges chamber (which became the 3rd floor, because it was bigger), the office of reporter decision, legal office, law offices employees, dining room, reading room
4th floor: library
5th floor: fitness and tennis Basketball
What is this building used for?
Inside is a single courtroom, but it is the most powerful court in the country. If a case has gone to trial elsewhere and no one can seem to figure what is right, the case will go to the Supreme Court to resolve the problem.
Why is it important?
When settlers decided he wanted to become a country, the leaders got together and wrote the Constitution to ensure that everyone was a fair treatment. Each of the 50 states has its own law, but everyone has to follow the laws of the country, too. Sometimes a law is written so confusing that no one can understand exactly what it means. The judges who work in the Supreme Court did not make new laws, which are tasked to find out what the law says, and if the law is fair. The Supreme Court is there to ensure that every person is guaranteed their constitutional rights. If a person has had a trial in another court, but the judge can not make a decision, or does not appear that the decision was fair, the case finally end up in the Supreme Court judges who work there can make a decision end. All other courts in the United States has to follow what the Supreme Court says. It is important that all Americans, rich or poor, are equal. The Court Supreme Court ensures that some people are treated worse because they are of a specific color or do not have a lot of money. Even the president has to listen to what the Court Supreme.
Interesting facts:
* The Supreme Court was about 145 years before finally constructing the building that is now. It used to navigate around the place until President Taft microphones Congress to give its own building.
* Some of the judges did not like the new building, as they were accustomed to a small room, and the new building was too much luxury. One judge joked that he felt as if all the judges should having to enter the courtroom to ride on the backs of elephants
* It has its own police force, called police Supreme Court to protect the building and people living in the interior
* The front of the building says that "equal justice under law" * The side reads: "Justice, the Guardian of Liberty "
* On 8 November 2005, a piece of marble fell from the building in the following steps. He weighed 172 pounds.
* On 13 January 2002, a wild fox got in and nobody could catch him for over a day.
* On the walls of the building are sculptures of people that have been important to law and justice throughout history.
* People are allowed to tour the building Monday through Friday from 9:00-4:30.
Compiled by: Krista Delle Femine, for Michaela
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