{"id":2209,"date":"2026-01-30T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:52:07","slug":"library-of-congress-was-burned-in-1815-by-the-british-during-the-war-of-1812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2209","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress Was Burned in 1815 by the British during the War of 1812"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/cf\/Thomas_Jefferson_Building_Aerial_by_Carol_M._Highsmith.jpg\/320px-Thomas_Jefferson_Building_Aerial_by_Carol_M._Highsmith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"176\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Jefferson Building Aerial by Carol M. Highsmith<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Library of Congress was burned in 1815 by the British during the War of 1812<\/strong>. The library was located in the Capitol Building. After the War of 1812 Thomas Jefferson helped reorganize the Library of Congress with a contribution of 6,500 books. The Library of Congress remained in the rebuilt Capitol Building until 1897 when the library building opened. The library now houses 144 million items. The first Library of Congress Building is the Thomas Jefferson\u00a0Building. Other portions of the Library of Congress are housed in the John Adams Building and the James Madison Memorial Building. Children could investigate the Library of Congress website for children at:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/families\/<\/a>. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The site is truly filled with many, many ideas. Remember to keep scrolling and scrolling!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library of Congress was burned in 1815 by the British during the War of 1812. The library was located in the Capitol Building. After the War of 1812 Thomas Jefferson helped reorganize the Library of Congress with a contribution of 6,500 books. The Library of Congress remained in the rebuilt Capitol Building until 1897 when <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2209' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4884,3527,5233,5234,5232,5174,5231,341],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4884","tag-capitol-building","tag-james-madison-memorial-building","tag-january-30","tag-john-adams-building","tag-library-of-congress","tag-thomas-jefferson-building","tag-war-of-1812","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24281,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/24281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}