Senate ChamberHouse ChamberWashington crossing the Delaware“Into the Wheatfield” – 2nd Delaware at Gettysburg, by Bradley SchmehlFirst Regiment Delaware Volunteers Repelling Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg David Pieterssen Devries, Patroon of First Delaware Soil, 1631Delaware native Admiral William HalseyLiberty Bell replica on the capitol grounds
This is the Maryland State Capitol. When I was here a couple years ago, the dome was covered in tarp, so when we came through this time, it was available!
Arizona’s state capitol in Phoenix has a beautiful, brilliant copper dome.The “Winged Victory” atop the dome is a 17 foot tall wind vane.Arizona state seal on the floor of the rotunda.The rotunda.Arizona House of Representatives building.Arizona Senate building.Liberty Bell replica.Petrified wood on the capitol grounds.Navajo Code Talkers Monument. In 1942, 29 Navajo men joined the U.S. Marines and developed an unbreakable code that would be used across the Pacific during World War II. They were the Navajo Code Talkers. The Navajo Code Talkers participated in all assaults the U.S. Marines led in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu and Iwo Jima. The Code Talkers conveyed messages by telephone and radio in their native language, a code that was never broken by the Japanese.
John Kinsel Sr., who was the oldest Navajo Code Talker, passed away on Saturday October 19, two days after we were here at the capitol. He was 107.Ten Commandments monument.Martin Luther King Jr. memorial.Very colorful memorial.Gold Star Families Memorial.Fallen Firefighter Memorial.Names of some of the 19 Prescott firefighters who were killed in a fire in 2013.USS Arizona and Battleship Missouri memorials.Colorful monument to the veterans of the Battle of the Bulge.Military submarines monument.
The capitol of New Mexico is a round building. The center of the building.Beautiful interior.The Rotunda.House of Representatives chamber.Senate chamber.Plaza of Santa Fe in the 1800s, in Buon Fresco, by Frederico M. Virgil, 1992.Buffalo, Retail and handwoven, Magnetic tape, film, paintbrushes, wire, quilting applique, by Holly Hughes, 1992.Hoshonzeh, Acrylic on panels, by Douglas Johnson, 1992. Hoshonzeh, translated from Navajo, means “Harmonious Way”, which is a ceremony performed to bring about harmony among all things natural.Center of the rotunda floor from the third floor.
Hawai’i became our 50th state in 1959. So today the capitol is undergoing renovation, and the walls obstruct a good picture of the building. The capitol was built in 1969.The “foyer” is outdoors. This mosaic is entitled “Aquarius”, by Tadashi Sato, in 1969.Instead of a rotunda, the center of the capitol is open air. This is the view looking up from the mosaic “Aquarius.”The view from the front of the capitol, looking at the eternal flame monument.Statue of Father Damien, who tended the leper colony on the island of Moloka’i in the 1800s.Senate chamber.House of Representatives chamber.
