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Photo - The Gold-Leaf Dome of The West Virginia Capitol in Charleston - Fine Art Photo Reproduction

Photo - The Gold-Leaf Dome of The West Virginia Capitol in Charleston - Fine Art Photo Reproduction

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For several years, the capital of West Virginia intermittently traveled between Wheeling and Charleston. In 1877, however, the state's citizens voted on the final location of their capital. Charleston was chosen and, eight years later, the first capitol building was opened. After a fire in 1921, a hastily-built structure was opened but it too burned down in 1927. A Capitol Building Commission, created by the Legislature in 1921, authorized construction of the present capitol, which is 10 feet taller than the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Architect Cass Gilbert designed the buff limestone structure that was to have a final cost of just under $10 million. After the three stages of construction were completed, Governor William G. Conley dedicated the capitol on June 20, 1932. | Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.|Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).|Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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