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John Quincy Adams Box Sofa

Sofa with a dark wooden frame and tufted green upholstery with a gold flower pattern/tiles/collection/6/6583.xml
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Date

ca. 1835

Dimensions

38 x 81 1/2 x 28 in. (96.5 x 207 x 71.1 cm)

Accession Number

2011.034.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Also referred to as the Adams sofa, this sturdy piece has been in the Capitol since the 1840s. The colloquial name derives from its role in John Quincy Adams’s death in 1848. Adams suffered a stroke while at his desk on the House Floor. He was laid on this sofa in the adjacent Speaker’s office (now the Lindy Boggs Congressional Women’s Reading Room), where he died soon thereafter.

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