Corn Cob Vestibule in the Capital Building

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Ul_h3EFNo

The US Supreme Court used to hold court in this basement area of the Capitol Building

Excerpt from 'John Maarshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme Court' by Edward Samuel Corwin

"…in a basement chamber, approached by a small hall opening on the eastern side of the Capitol and flanked by pillars carved to represent bundles of cornstalks with ears half opened at the top, Marshall held court for more than a third of a century and elaborated his great principles of constitutional law."

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I think this Corn Cob Vestibule in the Capital Building is significant given the various 'corn' post s by Grassley and Nunes. What is this chamber used for today?

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/resources/pdf/Senate_Vestibule.pdf

Rather than simply adopting traditional Greek or Roman column motifs, Latrobe

chose to “Americanize” them with capitals featuring ears of corn and shafts carved to resemble

bundles of corn stalks. As Latrobe reported to

former President Jefferson in August 1809:

“These capitals during the summer session

obtained me more applause from members of

Congress than all the works of magnitude or difficulty that surround them. They christened them

the ‘corncob capitals’.”