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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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