The Capitol Building - Cheyenne, WY
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The Wyoming State Capitol Building is found in Cheyenne, WY, the state capitol.
Waymark Code: WMN69B
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 01/03/2015
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11. The CAPITOL BUILDING (open 8-5 weekdays), Capitol Ave., between Carey and Central Aves., and 24th and 25th Sts., houses the offices of State officials and the State legislative chambers and committee rooms. The three-and-a-half-story sandstone building, designed in 1887 by D. W. Gibbs, is of neoclassic design. The dome, rising 145 feet above the ground, is 50 feet in diameter. It is surmounted by a classic lantern cupola and rests on a colonnaded octagonal drum; the drum is pierced by arched windows on each face. The main entrance is in the rusticated base of a porticoed central pavilion. A broad hall, 18 feet wide, open into the central rotunda, and halls of similar width lead east and west to the main wings. The floors are tile and wood-work carved cherry. A mellow light flows into the rotunda through yellow cathedral glass in the dome.
Legislative halls contain portraits of early Wyoming statesmen and murals take their themes from the Wyoming pioneer tradition.pgs. 191-2, Wyoming. A guide to its History, Highways, and People (1941)