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Sam Rayburn Library and Museum

Bonham, Italy

The Sam Rayburn Library and Museum is a public research center, library, and museum at 800 West Sam Rayburn Drive in Bonham, Texas. It was built in 1957 as a working library and research center for Sam Rayburn (1882–1961), the influential United States Congressman who holds the record as the longest

-serving Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The building, designed by Roscoe DeWitt, is the most prominent example of Classical Revival architecture in Fannin County, expressly evoking the Classical architecture of Washington, D.C. The library is now operated as part of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, part of the University of Texas at Austin. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

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