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The United States Capitol is the meeting place of the United States Congress. It is located at Capitol Hill, on the eastern end of the famous National Mall in Washington DC. It was built from 1793 to 1800 and has undergone many expansions and upgrades since then. This is the east face. The dome was undergoing a long overdue upgrade during my visit and is nearly complete.
The Kansas State Capitol in Topeka began construction in 1866. In 1903, a mere 37 years after construction began, the building was completed. In 1988 a sculpture was approved for the top of the dome. In 2002 the sculpture Ad Astra was installed.
The capitol building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Notes: Australia's first 'atmospheric' theatre, the Capitol, intended for silent movies and live performances, opened in 1928.
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The light was absolutely gorgeous on my first visit to the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul last week. Unfortunately, at sunset this time of the year, the angle means that the front of the building is in shade. The best views were from the parking lot at the back leaving me having to pick detail shots like this one rather than images of the whole building.
This was shot with the wonderful and inexpensive Nikon 50mm f/1.4D lens.
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This was designed by Cass Gilbert and modeled after Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. The unsupported marble dome is the second largest in the world after Saint Peters'. There is a gilded quadiga over the entrance. The capitol was completed in 1905.
There are more people than usual around because there is a rally just breaking up. The Governor and the legislature could not come to an agreement on the budget and the State of Minnesota government is scheduled to shut down tomorrow.
There is some repair construction going on and that is the reason there is some scaffolding on the building, the orange fence and the porta potties out front.
I took a buttload of pictures of the Capitol from different angles over a period of four days, and this was the nicest one.
Here we have the Capitol Dome of the West Virginia State Capitol. I took this back in 2010........I just recently started looking through old pictures to see about cleaning a few up to upload since it's been too cold for me to get out and about shooting new shots. The capitol was quite a sight to see in person.
On the day I visited The United States Capitol workers had just made a start of building up all the scaffolding, for the restoration of the dome of The Capitol.
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol Building or Capitol Hill, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. It sits atop Capitol Hill, at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.. Though not at the geographic center of the Federal District, the Capitol forms the origin point for the District's street-numbering system and the District's four quadrants.
The original building was completed in 1800 and was subsequently expanded, particularly with the addition of the massive dome. Like the principal buildings of the executive and judicial branches, the Capitol is built in a distinctive neoclassical style and has a white exterior. Both its east and west elevations are formally referred to as fronts, though only the east front was intended for the reception of visitors and dignitaries.
In 2014, scaffolding was erected around the dome for a restoration project scheduled to be completed by early 2017.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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The US Capitol in Washington, DC, in December 1998.
The Peace Monument, also known as the Naval Monument or Civil War Sailors Monument, can be seen in the foreground.
The white marble monument is 44 feet (13.4 m) tall. Erected in 1878, it commemorates the naval deaths at sea during the American Civil War.
Completed in 1888, the Texas Capitol building stands 308 feet tall, some twenty feet taller than the U.S. Capitol Building. The building was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style by Elijah Myers, who also designed the state capitol buildings of the states of Michigan and Colorado. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and designated an National Historic Landmark in 1986. A poll of the American Institute of Architects in 2007 ranked the building 92nd on the list of America's Favorite Architecture and the highest rated state capitol building.