Tube Man, Minnesota State Capitol, Capitol Hill, Saint Paul, MN : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Tube Man, Minnesota State Capitol, Capitol Hill, Saint Paul, MN / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built between 1896 and 1905, this Italian Renaissance Revival and Beaux Arts-style legislative building was designed by Cass Gilbert, and sits in a park-like setting just north of Downtown St. Paul. The building was the successor to two previous capitol buildings, constructed in 1853 and 1883, which stood closer to Downtown Saint Paul, and featured brick exteriors with stone trim. The third capitol building, clad in marble sourced from Georgia, features the second-largest self-supported marble dome in the world, only being surpassed by its primary inspiration, the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy. A large gold Quadriga, known as “Progress of the State”, stands below the dome, above the building’s front entrance. The building has large outdoor stairways to the south, east, and west, leading up to entrances, with passageways underneath these stairways featuring tiled vaults. Two smaller domes sit atop each of the building’s symmetrical wings, over the Senate Chamber and Supreme Court Chamber, with a large half-dome in the rear over the House of Representatives Chamber. The interior of the building is beautifully decorated with lots of ornate trim and symbolic motifs, including painted ceilings, stone floors, wood paneled walls, and gilded trim. As originally built, the capitol was surrounded by a dense, mixed-use urban neighborhood, which was cleared over the following decades to enlarge the park-like grounds around the building, attaining its present size and form by the mid-1950s, though leaving the capitol quite detached from the surrounding city. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and underwent massive restoration efforts both in the 1970s, and between 2013 and 2017. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-11-10 15:35:26 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States 地図 |