2-889-545 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The State-House, Ohio, [USA], 1850. 'This handsome edifice has lately been erected in the city of Columbus...The building contains the Hall of Representatives...the Senate Chamber...and the Library...the Rotunda [is] richly ornamented with cornice, brackets, and panels. There are also rooms for the Circuit Court of the United States, and offices for the Executive, and every department of the state Government, besides thirty-six committee-rooms. The style of architecture is Grecian Doric....The Rotunda is covered with a stone conical roof, designed by Mr. W. Russell West, the present architect of the state...The dimensions of the building are 305 ft. by 184 ft. It is surrounded by a terrace...The height to the top of the roof of the rotunda from the ground is 140 ft...The material employed in the building is a secondary limestone...resembling, at a short distance, white marble'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.