BGuthrie Photos: UT -- Salt Lake City -- State Capitol -- Interior

UT -- Salt Lake City -- State Capitol -- Interior:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SCAUTI_030521_004_STITCH.JPG: "The Gold Room". This is the State Reception Room, designed to accommodate important state functions. The marble is a local Golden Traverse. The table is Russian Circassian walnut. The chairs use English coronation velvet. Note the little beehive symbols in the corners of the rug.
2. SCAUTI_030521_006.JPG: The state capital is a little unusual if you're used to most capitals. Normally, the House is on one side and the Senate on the other. In Utah, the House is on one side and the Supreme Court is on the opposite side. The Senate is in the middle.
3. SCAUTI_030521_009.JPG: Daniel Cowan Jackling. This is the engineer who figured out how to make copper strip-mining feasible enough to launch the Kennecutt Copper Mine area. This statue, like many others in the state capital, were donated by the Kennecutt Copper Mine.
4. SCAUTI_030521_014.JPG: Thomas Kane. So much of the Utah state capital has Mormon religious symbology that it's hard to distinguish the state and church government. In fact, the streets in Salt Lake City are numbered based on their distance from the Mormon Temple, not the state capital, which is a little bizarre (and numbering based on Temple distances is common throughout Utah) but this makes some sense because the state capital moved there relatively late in the game, after the roads were already numbered. However, when you read signs like the one describing this guy in the state capital, you have to wonder about any pretense of separation of church and state. "Brigadier General Thomas L. Kane. The immortal friend of Utah and its people. Following the days of their severest persecutions in the winter of 1846-7, when the Mormon pioneers, driven from their beloved city of Naovoo, Illinois by mob violence, were scattered across the frozen plains of Iowa, there came into their midst a young man, Thomas L Kane, a Native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who expressed a desire to assist them in their suffering. Through the Christian and economic benefactions of Thomas I Kane and his father Judge John K Kane, United States District Judge of Philadelphia, the War Department at Washington DC was directed by President James K Polk to accept the enlistment of the Mormon Battalion of 500 men in the war with Mexico who under the command of Lt Col P St George Cooke marched to California, built Fort Moore at Los Angeles, and aided in establishing American sovereignty in southern California. The Government money paid the battalion members was used to feed and clothe the destitute Mormons in Iowa and this, with their indomitable faith and perseverance, enabled them to make their migration to the Salt Lake Valley in July, 1847. Later, on January 24, 1848, while several mustered-out Mormon Battalion soldiers were digging a mill race at Sutters Mill on the American River near Sacramento California, gold was discovered which resulted in the California Gold Rush of 1849 which brought statehood to California in 1850."
5. SCAUTI_030521_017.JPG: This is the main rotunda. The statue of Brigham Young is walking into the room on the right.
6. SCAUTI_030521_020.JPG: The capital rotunda reaches 165 feet at its highest point. The chain you see is 95-feet, weighs 7000 pounds, and supports a 6000-pound chandelier. There are twelve paintings, including the ones in the corners and the mural on top, were done by the WPA during the Depression. The mural was painted elsewhere and then attached here. They both depict early scenes of the founding of Utah. The big painting on the left shows the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition of 1776 which resulted in the first documentation of the area. On the right is John Fremont who mapped the area for the federal government. The mural shows other scenes. Just to the right of the chandelier chain is the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. The one of the left of it shows "the miracle of the gulls", where seagulls came in and destroyed a grasshopper plague during the early harvests here in the area.
7. SCAUTI_030521_038.JPG: Compare this to the previous shot and you'll appreciate the power of a 6x zoom!
8. SCAUTI_030521_059.JPG: The Gold Room again
9. SCAUTI_030521_081.JPG: This is the House side of the capital
10. SCAUTI_030521_084.JPG: This is the Supreme Court side of things. Sorry about the dark room!
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Wikipedia Description: Utah State Capitol
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The Utah State Capitol is located on Capitol Hill, overlooking downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the home of the Utah State Legislature, the Governor of Utah, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, the Utah Attorney General, the Utah State Treasurer, and the Utah State Auditor.

Construction on the capitol began on December 26, 1912 and was dedicated on October 9, 1916. The building is 404 feet (123 m) long, 240 feet (73 m) wide, and is capped by a dome that reaches 286 feet (87 m). The granite used was quarried in Little Cottonwood Canyon, and the dome is covered in copper mined in Utah. The original construction cost was $2,739,538.00. In 2004 the capitol closed for an extensive restoration and seismic upgrade. The capitol was rededicated on January 4, 2008, and was opened to the public the next day.

The building is the centerpiece of a 40 acre plot which also includes a Vietnam War memorial and a monument dedicated to the Mormon Battalion. The renovations added a new plaza, a reflecting pool, and two office buildings, as well as underground parking. The grounds feature plants, shrubs, and trees native to Utah, as well as stunning views of Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front.

The interior has three floors plus a former basement level which now hold base isolators meant to make the building more resistant to earthquakes. The captiol is decorated with many paintings and sculptues of Utah's history and heritage, including statues of Brigham Young, first territorial governor, and Philo T. Farnsworth, Utah native and inventor of television. The floors are made of marble from Georgia. Twenty-four Ionic columns line the central hall connecting the two wings on either side of the dome, each of which weighs about 25,000 lb. A chandelier weighing 6,000 lb hangs from the rotunda of the central dome. The chain supporting it weighs an additional 7,000 lb.

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