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This amazing double-spiral staircase was designed and built by Horace King, a former slave who was renowned in the south as a master bridge builder

Flanked by separate House and Senate buildings built in the late 1950's and guarded from the rear by the Orwellian Executive Tower completed in 1974, lies Arizona's territorial capitol, now a museum.

Though its construction was plagued by controversy and shady dealings common to the life political, the Arkansas Capitol is a masterpiece of early 20th century public buildings.

Started in 1860 and completed in 1874, the Italian Renaissance style of the California Capitol graces the city of Sacramento

Glittering brass, carefully polished by an attentive staff, fills the interior of this beautiful and historic capitol.

One of only two capitols built in the Gothic style, the Connecticut capitol stands tall in Hartford.

Delaware's capitol houses is built in the Georgian Revival style and was completed in 1933, near where the original State House sits (1792).

Dominating the Tallahassee skyline, this 1970's International Style office tower is the newest State Capitol in the United States

Its cupola crowned by Miss Liberty holding high the lamp of truth, Georgia's 1889 gold-domed capitol is hidden in a thicket of 20th century office buildings in the midst of Atlanta's tangled highway system.

Designed by its architect, John E. Tourtellotte, to be "flooded with light" the Idaho capitol offers visitors an airiness unusual in public buildings of classical design.

Illinois has the tallest of the domed state capitols, at 361 feet. Begun in 1867, it took 20 years to complete.

Built in a mixture of the Italian Renaissance Revival and NeoGreco styles, the Indiana capitol was completed in 1888.

The only capitol building with 5 domes, Iowa's capitol stands tall above the Des Moines River and the city's downtown.

Started in 1866 and completed in 1903, the French Renaissance Revival Kansas capitol was built on a pay-as-you-go basis. It is the second tallest of the domed capitols.

Construction of the new Beaux Arts Kentucky capitol (the 1830 capitol still stands in city center by the Kentucky River) took from 1905 to 1910. The pediment art over the front portico is by noted American sculptor Charles Henry Niehaus and is the finest of all the state capitols.

Designed and built in about two years, Louisiana's Art Deco Skyscraper stands by the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge. Planned by Governor Huey Long to show his state's progressivism, it is the tallest of state capitols at 450 feet.

Core parts of Maine's attractive capitol date to the original 1832 building, but the exterior Beaux Arts look is from the extensive 1909 to 1911 building remodeling and expansion.

The oldest of all 50 capitol buildings, the original part of Maryland's state house was completed in the Georgian style in 1779. It is the only capitol building with a wooden dome.

The original part of the Massachusetts state house was completed in 1798, with a copper dome sheathed by none other than Paul Revere. The current capitol is a complex of buildings fronted by the rebuilt original.

Designed by renowned American architect Cass Gilbert, Minnesota's capitol in St. Paul helped him to national acclaim. The gilded quadriga above the entry portico represents earth, wind, fire and water, lead by civilization, and directed by prosperity.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright said of this capitol “The most honest of state capitols, sincere and forthright.”

One of America's most grand and beautiful capitol buildings, Pennsylvania's cost over 12 million dollars to build and furnish, a fabulous and controversial sum in 1905.

Designed by Thomas Jefferson, the Virginia capitol, the second oldest in the nation, was started during the American Revolution and finished shortly thereafter.

Begun in 1886 and completed in 1917, the Wyoming capitol building is currently undergoing a complete renovation slated to be finished in 2019.