The Ayes have it!

The 1909 specimen catalog from the H. C. Hansen Type Foundry of Boston contained a lovely decorative face named Congress, which is the pattern for this font.

It’s a winning choice for distinctive headlines, and the uppercase letters are also suitable by themselves for use as decorative initials.

The PC Postscript, Truetype and Opentype versions contain the complete Latin language character set (Unicode 1252) plus Central European (Unicode 1250) languages as well.