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LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska's State Capitol building has over 100,000 visitors every year. Sightseers walk down the Great Hall, into the Rotunda and see the Unicameral Chamber.
The elevator, which will hold up to 20 people, will replace the existing spiral staircase on the South side of the East Wing rotunda, across from a bank of smaller elevators.
The state unveiled the carvings of Nassau and Bronx on the State Capitol's Million Dollar Staircase in Albany on Tuesday. The Bronx and Nassau were not incorporated as counties when construction ...
Since 2004, the Office of the Capitol Commission has used Christmas ornaments to commemorate aspects of the Nebraska State Capitol building while expressing the messages intended in its original ...
The stone carving is the first sculpted portrait to be added to the ornate four-story, red sandstone staircase in 125 years.
A wooden cover was constructed to protect the cast iron spiral staircase during the renovation of the Old State Capitol in the early 1990s.
A secret tunnel has been discovered under the floorboards of the US Capitol building – that may have once been used by British troops to attack the president.
Prepare to climb. The real top floor of the Nebraska State Capitol is a 10-minute hike from where the public elevators open on the 14th floor. Beyond a locked door, a staircase of opaque glass ...
Everything that is wrong with New York state government can be summed up by the staircase leading up to the Capitol building in Albany.
The Capitol’s famed staircase is home to carvings of 77 “famous” faces, not to mention more than a dozen others who are mysteries even to the building’s knowledgeable historians.
Since 2004, the Office of the Capitol Commission has used Christmas ornaments to commemorate the state Capitol building.