Literature in Stone: The Hundred Year History of Pennsylvania's State Capitol
Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee, 2006. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, gilt seal decoration on front cover, black & blue & color illus. dust jacket, 384 pp., profusely illus., chiefly in color. VG (First page carries lavish signature of architect-former owner; otherwise clean.). Item #151631
ISBN: 0964304880
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has had three separate buildings serve as the Capitol since 1812. The current one "was completed in 1906 by Philadelphia architect Joseph Miller Huston in the American Renaissance style. The building unites art and architecture by melding old world motifs and new world ideas. ... As the decades passed, the Capitol, through fragmented cycles of motly deferred maintenance, turned from a palace of art into a place of neglect. ... By the late 1970s, it was apparent that a unified campaign of restoration was needed to preserve the historic fabric of the building. In 1982 the Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee was established to restore the building to its original splendor and to serve as custodian of all the building's historic elements. ... Both fiscally and historically, the successful restoration of the Pennsylvania Capitol elevates the justification for lasting historic preservation in the realm of monumental public buildings." (dj) Lavishly illustrated, as you may expect.
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