Next they'll try to tell us the state Capitol isn't made of Texas pink granite. It isn't? "Sunset red," says Lee Ann Clark, who works at the Cold Spring Granite Design Store, which is next door to ...

Opened in 1888, this landmark (made of Texas sunset red granite) stands 14 feet taller than the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Texas ...

AUSTIN — The sunset red granite of the Texas state capitol stands at 302 feet. It towers over nearby Travis County and Austin municipal buildings, as if to convey a physical superiority over ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas capitol turns 131 years old ... a quarry in Marble Falls agreed to donate all the “Sunset Red” granite needed to build the 302-foot-tall capitol.

In Austin, tucked behind the Texas Capitol, a modern building made from the same sunset red granite as the Capitol’s signature dome houses the state’s highest appellate courts. Two courts are ...

The one in Austin, that features the commandments carved into Texas Sunset Red Granite, was erected by the Fraternal Order of Eagles of Texas in 1961. In November, voters in Alabama approved a ...