3D print the Thomas Jefferson Building
A free, printable model of the Thomas Jefferson Building, a broad library building on its city block, with the surrounding streets and buildings of Washington, D.C., generated from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 59 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 17 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
59 m of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 17 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Long walls and roofline
A large classical building has long walls and a roofline that runs the length of the print. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep those long edges clean.
- Fine work at a small size
At the default size, fine detail on the walls and the front is easy to lose. Full detail keeps every modeled feature; Print friendly adapts thin parts to the print scale.
- One piece with the ground
The Thomas Jefferson Building is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Thomas Jefferson Building takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Thomas Jefferson Building
The Thomas Jefferson Building, sometimes called the Main Library, is the oldest building in the Library of Congress group in Washington, D.C. It stands on First Street S.E. on Capitol Hill, bounded by Independence Avenue and East Capitol Street and across from the United States Capitol, and the John Adams and James Madison Memorial buildings of the same complex are close by.
The library had been kept in a wing of the Capitol, and by the 1880s it was clear that the collection, which had come to take in the US Copyright Office as well, needed a building of its own; the 1815 purchase of Jefferson's books had formed a core of that collection. Congress approved construction in 1886, building ran from 1890 to 1897, and on November 1, 1897 it opened to the public. In 1980 the building was renamed for Jefferson, a Founding Father and the third U.S. president.
It is designed in the Beaux-Arts style, an elaborate decorative version of Classical Revival, with a classicizing facade and a richly decorated interior. Paul J. Pelz was the main designer; he began the work with John L. Smithmeyer, and Edward Pearce Casey succeeded him in the final years of construction, with Bernard Green as consulting engineer and architect. Casey and Green raised the dome above the main reading room to 195 ft and finished it with 23 carat gold leaf. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
About this model
The Thomas Jefferson Building is one of more than 4,400 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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