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If you know anything about Texans, you won't be surprised to learn that the Texas Capitol
is still the largest Capitol in the nation. It is even taller than the National Capitol
thanks to the Goddess of Liberty who sits on top of the dome. Goddess? Well, let's just
say she looks better from a distance than up close. The previous Capitol building burned
down and this one took six years and about four million dollars to build. That would
be about seventy-five million dollars today adjusted for inflation. It was completed in
1888 and said to have been the 7th largest building in the world at that time. The style
is Renaissance-Revival based on 15th century Italian architecture. It was important to
the builders to use local materials. They tried limestone at first but wound up using
red granite quarried by convicts in the nearby Hill Country.