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Capitol in Need of Face lift after 192 years
The U S Capitol faces a 49 million dollar renovation as it traces its 192 year history from fiery bombings to political drama. Architects and historians weigh its Palladian neoclassical design, and the ongoing West Front restoration aims for completion in 1988.
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U.S. Capitol
Capitol
Robert M. Andrews
Associated Press
Washington
United States Capitol
Don Canby
Architecture Magazine
Frederick D. Nichols
University of Virginia
Lois Craig
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
White House
Houses of
Parliament
Kremlin
Greece
Rome
Thomas Jefferson
St. Isaac’s Cathedral
St. Petersburg
St. Peter’s Basilica
Vatican
St. Paul’s Cathedral
London
Santa Maria Dei Fiori
Florence
Pantheon
Church of the Invalids
Paris
Congress House
William Thornton
The
Virgin Islands
Pierre Charles L’enfant
Jenkins’ Hill
Thornton
Virginia
Congress
Philadelphia
Senate Chamber
Kentucky
William Preston Taulbee
Louisville Times
Constantino Brumidi
Rotunda
Brumidi
Senate
Italy
Rembrandt Peale
John Trumbull
Albert Bierstadt
Seth Eastman
Kamehameha I
Hawaiian Islands
Martin Luther King Jr
George Washington
Cliff Young
Allyn Cox