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George Browne Post designed the Wisconsin state capitol, located in Madison. Construction was completed in 1917.
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Located in Des Moines, the Iowa state capitol—built in 1871—was devised by John C. Cochrane, Alfred H. Piquenard, and Edward Clark.
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In 1874, construction began at California’s state capitol, designed by M. Frederic Butler in Sacramento.
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Richard M. Upjohn devised the Connecticut state capitol, which was completed in Hartford in 1878.
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In Lansing, Michigan, the Elijah E. Myers–designed capitol was completed in 1878.
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Founding father Thomas Jefferson and French architect Charles-Louis Clérisseau designed the state capitol in Richmond, Virginia, which was built in 1785.
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Charles Bulfinch designed Massachusetts’s state capitol, which was erected in Boston in 1798.
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Ohio’s capitol building, which saw five architects and a cholera epidemic, was finally erected after 22 years of construction, in Columbus in 1861.
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In Springfield, Illinois, the Cochrane and Garnsey–designed capitol building was erected in 1868.
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Architects Walter Wilder and Harry White devised Washington’s capitol building, which was completed in 1928 in Olympia.
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John Carl Warnecke and the architecture firm Belt, Lemmon & Lo, designed the Honolulu, Hawaii, capitol building, which was completed in 1969.
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Utah’s state capitol, in Salt Lake City, was designed by Richard K.A. Kletting and built between 1912 and 1916.
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The Texas state capitol was completed in Austin in 1888. Elijah E. Meyers was the architect behind the design.
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Teams of architects, including Henry Hobson Richardson, Leopold Eidlitz, Thomas Fuller, Isaac G. Perry, and Frederick Law Olmsted, designed the New York state capitol in Albany, which was completed in 1899.
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Located in Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania state capitol was designed by Joseph Miller Huston and completed in 1906.