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

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

The inauguration ceremony would move to Washington D.C. for Thomas Jefferson's 1801 oath of office, according to the National Library of Congress, but circumstances in subsequent years would force the inauguration to happen on a plane, at a farm and at a personal residence.

Chester A. Arthur (1881)

After just 200 days in office — a presidency historians called "impactful," if short — an "embittered attorney" passed over for a consular post shot President James A. Garfield at a Washington, D.C. railroad station.

Garfield would not survive his injuries, making his vice president, Chester A. Arthur, head of state.

On Sept. 20, 1881, then-Vice President Arthur took the oath of office........

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