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 ...

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 ...

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 US Capitol was designed by William Thornton, and Congress met there for the first time in 1800. The building underwent ... The US Capitol in Washington, DC, houses the entire legislative ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Located at 100 Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, DC, it is the meeting place of the US Congress. The Capitol building has more than 540 rooms and has 658 windows. The Dome is 8,909,200 pounds ...

“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 ...