While we were in San Antonio, we visited Austin. We got to visit the State Capitol as well as to see Lorraine’s Nephew Sean Runnels and his lovely wife Sara. Great lunch with them.
We visited the Texas State Capitol in the morning and this was the busiest Capitol we have seen. There were a lot of visitors including families. It was a Saturday so that was probably why.
The Texas State Capitol is 302.64 feet (92.24 m) tall, making it the sixth tallest state capitol and one of several taller than the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. The current Texas State Capitol is the third building to serve that purpose. The second Texas capitol was built in 1853, on the same site as the present capitol in Austin; it was destroyed in the great capitol fire of 1881, but plans had already been made to replace it with a new, much larger structure.
The capitol is a roughly rectangular building with a four-story central block, symmetrical three-story wings extending to the east and west, and a dome rising from the center. It is built in an Italian Renaissance Revival style and modeled on the design of the United States Capitol, but with its exterior clad with local red granite.
