“There is going to be a renewed sense of beauty, and a renewed sense of the incredible detail that went into building this dome,” said Architect of the Capitol’s Stephen T. Ayers at a House ...

Thomas Walter who proposed a dome no one had asked for. This is the Capitol that George Washington knew and it's still the center of the Capitol Building today. Walter won a competition to expand ...

WASHINGTON — A massive three-year project to restore the U.S. Capitol dome came to an end Tuesday, with project leaders announcing they successfully finished all their work. “This project was ...

The 2001 Nisqually quake rocked Olympia, damaging the dome of the state Capitol building. ”The seismic engineer told me that the dome itself, the structural dome, and the colonnade actually ...

The poet Walt Whitman, who wandered Washington ... Capitol building, said in a video accompanying the announcement. He said they would try to reattach or replicate the originals. Most of the dome ...

THE Capitol building has been sitting in Washington DC for 228 years ... The 15,000 pound statue sits over the dome at 19 feet and 6 inches tall and is made of bronze. Work for the statue was ...

The dome stands at 293 feet tall — 5 feet higher than the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Wisconsin's state capitol building features the only granite dome in the US, according to Travel Wisconsin.

The post-apocalyptic view of Capitol dome after those wicked storms blew through DC. pic.twitter.com/X65u1kPTEW — Paul Kane (@pkcapitol) June 24, 2015 After a ...

WASHINGTON — A world ... The current dome is actually the second to sit atop the Capitol. The first was deemed too small for the building and was replaced in 1862. The current dome celebrated ...

OLYMPIA – The sandstone dome on the Capitol is once again the color of beach sand as the first phase of a $3.4 million cleaning and restoration project of the iconic building nears completion.

“Early settlers noted that the white domes of Navajo Sandstone resemble the dome of the Capitol building in Washington, DC,” Capitol Reef explains on its website. The reef part comes from the ...