Ornate Lighting - Sprngfield Illinois Capitol
by Luther Fine Art
Title
Ornate Lighting - Sprngfield Illinois Capitol
Artist
Luther Fine Art
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Illinois State Capitol building is a lovely building built in classic French Renaissance architectural style. The beautiful dome is round and colorful. This shot came from an angle in order to display some of the beautiful iron work in the lighting around the first floor rotunda.
From Wikipedia:
With a total height of 361 feet (110 m), the Illinois capitol is the tallest non-skyscraper capitol, even exceeding the height of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC. The only state capitols taller than it are the non-classical designs found in Florida, Louisiana and Nebraska, the governments of which opted for more modern buildings for their current capitols. The dome itself is 92.5 feet (28.2 m) wide, and is supported by solid bedrock, 25.5 feet (7.77 m) below the surface. It is the highest (though not the tallest) building in Sangamon County. The Hilton building[specify] is technically taller than the Capitol building, however it is on lower ground, making the Capitol building higher. A city statute does not allow buildings to be built higher than the Capitol building. The building itself is shaped like a Latin cross aligned to the major compass directions, and measures 379 feet (116 m) from the north end to the south end, and 268 feet (81.7 m) from the east end to the west end. The capitol occupies a nine acre plot of land which forms the capitol grounds. William Douglas Richardson served as one of the principal contractors for the construction of the capitol building, and Jacob Bunn, an in-law of W. D. Richardson, served as chairman of the capitol construction steering committee
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July 28th, 2013
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