See other pages on the capitol building:

Exterior

Exterior: Entrance porch

Other views of campus

Interior: Entrance Vestibule

Rotunda, dome interior and halls

Reception room

Washington State Capitol--page 3 (of 6 pages)

Walter Wilder and Harry White

The Temple of Justice, 1917 This building, the home of the state Supreme Court, was completed prior to the Capitol Building (known also as the Legislative Building). The winning proposal by Walter Wilder and Harry White called for six Neoclassical buildings arranged around the central domed Legislative Building.
	The Capitol campus setting The group of buildings designed by Walter Wilder and Harry White were in a site of 12 acres with grounds designed by the landscape specialists, the Olmsted brothers. (See this index for additional works by the Olmsteds.) Today the campus includes 50 acres; this hillside site overlooks Capitol Lake and the southern tip of Puget Sound, a setting that has been much praised.

Continue to page 4--Interior: Entrance Portico.



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