Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol

If you ever took a field trip to Washington as a kid and paid a visit to the U.S. Capitol, you were sure to walk through Statuary Hall, where all 50 states get to place statues of their most prominent residents. Except the District, of course, which got none at all.

That may soon change. The Post is reporting that a years-long effort by D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton to place two D.C. statues in Statuary Hall may soon bear fruit, as a House committee finally got around to passing legislation allowing for statues of Pierre L’Enfant and Frederick Douglass to be added to the hall. (The two statues, chosen by District residents in 2006, have been somewhat anonymously relegated to the lobby of the District’s Judiciary Square building.)