These high-profile inaugurations were not held at the U.S. Capitol. This is why

(NEXSTAR) – For decades, Americans have gathered at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to watch the inauguration of the next president, but there are some noteworthy exceptions.

While President George Washington’s first and second inaugurations were held outside of Washington, D.C., they were still held in the nation’s capital, which was New York City in 1789, and Washington’s second inauguration in 1793, in Philadelphia.

The inauguration was scheduled to move to Washington, D.C., for Thomas Jefferson’s 1801 inauguration, according to the National Library of Congress, but circumstances in later years would force the inauguration to be held on a plane, on a farm and at a personal residence.

Chester A. Arthur (1881)

After only 200 days in office—a presidency described by historians as “impressive,” if brief—an “embittered lawyer” who had gone on to become a consul shot President James A. Garfield at a railway station in Washington, DC.

Garfield did not survive his injuries, making his deputy, Chester Arthur, president of the state.

On September 20, 1881, then-Vice President Arthur was sworn in at his home in New York City, where New York Supreme Court Justice John R. Brady officiated the proceedings, according to official accounts.

The next day, he was sworn in again, this time before a group of invited guests inside the Vice President’s Chamber at the U.S. Capitol, according to the American Presidency Project from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Theodore Roosevelt (1901)

The assassination of President William McKinley led to a hastily arranged inauguration party at a home in Buffalo, New York, according to the National Park Service.

McKinley was shot twice at close range while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, according to White House historians. He will die eight days later.

His vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, was vacationing in the Adirondack Mountains in New York when he received news that McKinley had been seriously wounded. Roosevelt rushed to Buffalo, but by the time he arrived McKinley had died.

Using a borrowed coat, pants, waistcoat, tie and leather shoes, Roosevelt decided to take the oath of office immediately so that the country would not face a leadership gap, according to the Park Service.

“I have been so shocked by the terrible news that reached me last night and by the disaster it has brought upon the country, as well as by the personal grief I feel, that I have not had time to think of plans for future conduct,” Roosevelt said, according to the Richmond Dispatch. “It was suddenly and sadly imposed on me.”

The impromptu inauguration was held in the library of the home of Roosevelt’s friend, Ansley Wilcox. The house is now open to the public as the inaugural Theodore Roosevelt National Historic Site.

Calvin Coolidge (1923)

The death of a sitting president led to another unconventional inauguration—this time in 1923 when Calvin Coolidge took the oath using a family Bible at the Vermont farm in Plymouth Notch where he grew up.

Coolidge was brought into office after President Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack in 1923 while in San Francisco, according to White House historians.

After learning at 2:30 a.m. on August 3, 1923, that he had become president, Coolidge’s father, a notary, asked his son to place his hand on the family Bible and take the oath of office.

President Coolidge’s birthplace and childhood home has since been preserved as a Vermont State Historic Site.

Lyndon Johnson (1963)

Nearly two hours after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Lyndon Johnson made history by becoming the only president to be inaugurated on an airplane.

Johnson was sworn in in the front cabin of Air Force One in Dallas, according to a Library of Congress blog. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes took the oath, the first time a woman had taken the oath in US history.

The photos show Johnson flanked by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and his wife, Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson, as he pledged to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Five days later, he was addressing Congress, invoking Kennedy’s vision for the country and calling for civil rights and tax legislation.

Fast forward to Monday, and President-elect Trump’s inauguration is already making history. While the ceremony will be held in the Capitol building, Trump announced that it will be held inside the rotunda in the Capitol to protect people from the severe cold forecast that day. An indoor inauguration has not been held since President Reagan’s in 1985, according to The Washington Post.