It holds the original copies of the three main formative documents of the United States and its government: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
[3] Historical records of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are available for research at NARA's Center for Legislative Archives.
[5] The College Park campus includes an archaeological site that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
[7] There are facilities across the country with research rooms, archival holdings, and microfilms of documents of federal agencies and courts pertinent to each region.
Federal Records Centers are not open for public research but, in many cases, may be housed in the same complex or building as a National Archives regional office.
[citation needed] The Director of the Federal Records Center Program is considered one of the primary office chiefs in the National Archives Executive for Agency Services.
There are also ten affiliated archives across the U.S. which hold, by formal, written agreement with NARA,[17] accessioned records.