Great Experiment Hall

Dedicated in 1982, the second series of Allyn Cox murals occupies the central east-west corridor of the House wing, known as Great Experiment Hall. In sixteen major paintings, it depicts the growth of the American experiment in democracy and free enterprise.
 


 
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