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The Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City is the only state capitol with a working oil well on its grounds.
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Theodore Wegmann Cabin
Itasca State Park
21 mi (34 km) north of Park Rapids off U.S. Route 71
Park Rapids vicinity, MN
1905–1942 log Rustic Style park structures, the earliest and most extensive pre-1930s examples in a U.S. state park. Primarily in Clearwater County, but extends into Becker and Hubbard Counties.
Image Taken At Oklahoma State Cowboys vs Wichita State Shockers Basketball Game, Sunday, December 8, 2019, Gallagher-Iba Arena, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. Courtney Bay/OSU Athletics
International students who went on the alternative spring break trip to Chicago add a touch of maroon to the city skyline. Their trip focused on the issues of hunger and homelessness.
This is a picture I took during a autumn visit to Mueller State Park located outside of Divide, Colorado. The park is a less than an hour drive from Colorado Springs and features over 5,000 acres of pristine wilderness at the base of Pikes Peak for visitors to explore.
You can read more about my visit at the link.
Arizona's state capitol is very peculiar. It's the capitol that isn't. It was...until 1960. For the last 60 years, this building hasn't served any of the three branches of government.
It's a small building. It was originally 40,000 square feet, completed in 1901 (when Arizona was still a territory). It eventually expanded to 123,000 square feet, but that's still too small.
Currently, the governor works in the "Executive Tower" (which you can see directly behind the capitol) and the other two branches are in buildings to the left and right of the entrance in front.
So...what is this building? A historical museum, though it's quite sparse on exhibits. There's the old House Chamber (which is open) and the Senate Chamber (which is "closed for special events"). The old Supreme Court is so small that if you are standing in the doorway and trip, you'd bang your head on the opposite wall.
Like neighboring New Mexico, they have a rather nice art display in this building. (Unlike New Mexico, though, their capitol is...you know...in use.
The current art display here -- and I think it rotates -- seems to have some themes: cigars happens to be one, as are guitars.
So Arizona, with its beautiful capitol-that-isn't, is a bit of an anomaly.
Having said that, it's a pretty building, with a nice rotunda, and a short dome.