'Da Capitol....

This post is the last of the photos I found on the unmarked disk. I finish the series with the Texas State Capitol building in Austin Texas. I found the whole day spent touring the capitol and its grounds filled with statues and more the most fascinating of the entire trip! And as we waited in line to enter, the one thing that caught my eye was the brass door hinges! "Texas Capitol". A photo follows below....

The Capitol's exterior walls are Texas red granite from Burnet County, while the interior and walls are Texas limestone.

The roof, encompassing 85,000 square feet, is made of copper.

the Texas Capitol covers three acres of ground with approximately 18 acres of floor space or 192,374 square feet of available office space. When completed in 1888, the building contained 392 rooms, 18 vaults, 924 windows, and 404 doors. Approximately 566 feet in length, 288 feet in width, and 302.64 feet from grade line to the top of the star on the Goddess of Liberty atop the dome

It is the largest of all domed state capitol buildings

The Capitol was officially completed on December 8, 1888, six years and ten months after construction began.

The building contractors were paid for construction with 3 MILLION acres of Texas land...it eventually became the XIT Ranch [the largest fenced in ranch in the WORLD]

Due to its location, the Rotunda is also a “whispering gallery.” Thanks to the echoes created by being underneath the dome, people in other parts of the Rotunda will be able to hear everything you say

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6000 Miles of fence on the XIT Ranch




Seen above: Door hinges, the captiol dome's statue, Sam Houston, Stephen Austin, staircases intracasies, view of Austin from Texas House of Representatives.




Seen above: Texas Lone Star light fixtures, Capitol Rotunda, Texas Senate [2 photos], Texas House of Representative, and oil painting of Santa Anna and Sam Houston where Mexico Surrendered!!  [Santa Anna, standing in white britches and blue coat, Sam Houston Reclining -Texas Revolution]