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Greek Revival Buildings tend to be obsessively symmetrical. If this was the case, this was likely an entrance and exit corridor in the structure as completed in 1842. This apparently changed when a federal court was constructed between the West and Central Wings in 1867. At that time the opening connecting this space with the Central Corridor was walled in on its east end. The room that this created housed the office of the clerk of the court. In 1885 a safe was placed in the room, which was sealed by an iron door on its west end to create the Treasurer's Vault. The ability to pass from the Central Corridor into Treasurer's Vault was not restored until the 1980s, nearly a hundred years later.
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