Washington, D.C. Photo - Alexander Hamilton Statue in Front of The Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.

The Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., known also as U.S. Department of the Treasury, is a National Historic Landmark building which is the headquarters of the United States Department of the Treasury. Originally designed by Ammi B. Young, the building suffered a fire in 1922. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971. Statue of Alexander Hamilton Sculptor James Earle Fraser created the statue of Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury which stands in front of the southern facade facing The Ellipse, and a statue of the 4th Secretary, Albert Gallatin, stands in front of the northern entrance.

Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life ’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.