Jean-Antoine Houdon's statue of George Washington in the rotunda
Virginia State Capitol, Bank and 10th Streets, Capitol Square, Richmond, Independent City, VA
Dubbed as West Virginia’s most recognizable and notable building, the state capitol building stands tall fronting the Kanawha River. It is located right on US Route 60, a east-west national highway that stretches 2,670 miles from Virginia to Arizona. The highway enters Charleston from Huntington, following the Kanawha River through to its source. Made of buff limestone over a steel frame, the capitol building is capped with a majestic dome almost 300 feet in height. The building has strong Greek and Roman architectural influences, as is the style of its designer, pioneering architect, Cass Gilbert. He was the man who also designed the capitols for Minnesota and Arkansas, the United States Supreme Court Building, as well as the Woolworth Building in New York City, the tallest building in the world when it was built in 1913.
Images of the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia, available both as prints and digitally via royalty-free licenses.
Here's a collection of bird's eye views of the river city from the RTD Archives.
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Images of the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia, available both as prints and digitally via royalty-free licenses.
Cass Gilbert's West Virginia State Capitol Ann Thomas Wilkins and David G. Wilkins
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Before departing Richmond, Virginia after my visit with flickr contact John H. Bowman, we took a quick tour around Richmond's Capitol Square, quite close to the Main Street Station where I would board the train to begin my trip home. Construction began on the capitol building in 1785, five years after Virginia relocated the capital city from Williamsburg to Richmond. The General Assembly first met there in October, 1792. The new capitol (now the central portion of the building) was designed by Thomas Jefferson with assistance from Charles Louis Clérisseau, a French architect. The design was inspired by the Maison Carrée, a Roman temple in Nimes, France that Jefferson admired. The Roman temple style employed here is thought to have started the Classical Revival in American public architecture, this apparently being the first instance in the world in which the temple style was employed for a major modern public building. The wings on either side were added to the capitol in 1906 to provide larger chambers for the two houses of the Virginia General Assembly. My thanks to John for providing this historical background, with additional information from Wikipedia: Virginia State Capitol
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Watercolor of the Virginia State Capitol completed May 2020. Artwork on cold press watercolor paper (11"X14") in double matte frame (16"X20").
