{"nrhp_refnum":"77001162","name":"State Capitol Building, Pennsylvania","other_names":["Main Capitol Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Third, Walnut, Commonwealth and North Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harrisburg","county":"Dauphin County","state":"PA","lat":40.26438731300004,"lon":-76.88379297499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-09-14","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2006-09-20","areas_of_significance":["Art","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The State Capitol Building for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, built between 1902 and 1906 on Capitol Hill near the Susquehanna River. It contains over six hundred rooms and is built of granite quarried in Vermont.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the building as the Commonwealth's seat of government, designed in the Italian Renaissance style with classical motifs, and notes its cost of about $11 million and its status as the most elegant of the state capitols at the time of construction. It also highlights the interior and exterior artwork, including bronze doors by Otto Jahnsen, murals by Edwin Austin Abbey and Violet Oakley, stained glass by W. B. Van Ingen, and sculpture by George Grey Barnard.","narrative":"Built between 1902 and 1906 on Capitol Hill in Harrisburg, the State Capitol is the seat of Pennsylvania's government. Joseph M. Huston designed it in the Italian Renaissance style, combining Greek and Roman classical motifs. Vermont granite forms the walls, and the building rises through four vertical sections to a dome whose drum and cupola are sheathed in terra-cotta above the granite. A Corinthian colonnade wraps the column level, and a bronze statue symbolic of the Commonwealth crowns the cupola. Its cost was about $11 million, and it was dedicated by President Theodore Roosevelt in the fall of 1906. The interior contains the Senate and House chambers, the Supreme Court chamber and the Governor's reception room. Artwork includes bronze doors by Otto Jahnsen, murals by Edwin Austin Abbey and Violet Oakley, stained glass by W. B. Van Ingen, and mosaic tile pavements by Henry C. Mercer. Barnard's sculptural groups stand at the front. The building replaced a capitol destroyed by fire in 1897.","period_of_significance":"1906 - Present","architect_builder":"Joseph M. Huston (architect)","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance Revival (recorded as Second Renaissance Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"The property is designated as the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex National Historic Landmark, dated 09/20/2006.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:28.902652-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/77001162.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001162/37dbf49ac0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001162/37dbf49ac0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Kumar Appaiah","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pennsylvania_State_Capitol_East_Side.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kumar Appaiah</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pennsylvania_State_Capitol_East_Side.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"13000287","name":"Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex (Boundary Revision)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-state-capitol-complex-boundary-revision-13000287/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995785","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_Capitol","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2915393"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/dauphin-county/state-capitol-building-pennsylvania-77001162/"}