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Madison, WI’s Capitol Square surrounding Wisconsin State Capitol

Wisconsin State Capitol, Capitol Square, Madison, WI

The Wisconsin State Capitol was built between 1906-1917 in Madison, Wisconsin, to house the Wisconsin State Government, with offices for the state house of representatives, state senate, Wisconsin Supreme Court, and Governor’s Office. George B. Post designed the Beaux Arts-style Capitol Building, which replaced the previous state capitol built in 1857-1869 and expanded in 1882 that burned down in 1904. The original capitol building was a humble Greek Revival-style building, with the second capitol building being a larger Classical Revival-style structure with Romanesque Revival elements, similar to the United Capitol Building, modernized with new wings in 1882. The current granite-clad Capitol Building is 284 feet tall to the top of the statue on the dome, which was sculpted by Daniel Chester French in 1920, with the exterior of the building featuring porticoes, arched windows, and decorative reliefs featuring festoons and cornices with modillions and dentils. The sides of the wings feature simpler cornices with dentils, pilasters and recessed windows, and a balustrade that conceals a low-slope roof at the setbacks on the sides of the wings and above the corner porticoes. The upper roof features front gabled portions in the middle punctured by skylights, with the roof being almost entirely enclosed by a parapet. At the center of the building is the rotunda, which is topped with a large dome that rises from a tall base.

Posted by w_lemay on 2023-03-08 12:50:52