Whenever they (or anyone) are unsure, just use a dictionary (or Wikipedia even). Better to do that than to declare something incorrectly in their video because they didn't take a moment to look it up.
Texan here, our capitol isn't dusty like he thinks but actually a shade of pink. That comes from a type of granite called Red Sunset that is native to Texas and was quarried from Granite Mountain just outside of Marble Falls, a small town in the Austin area. That same hue is on a lot of the government buildings in Austin.
West Virginia's dome is amazing and he didn't find the best pics to show the sunlight shining on that gold dome. An aerial shot from across the river really shows the beauty of the building.
I'm from Pennsylvania so I'm Happy he ranked # 3. Of course I feel it's the best. Theodore Roosevent said at the Dedication "That is quite the Handsomest Building I have ever seen!"
The Wisconsin’s capitol is X shaped because each wing houses different parts of the government. One wing is the assembly, one wing is the senate, one wing is the Supreme Court, and one is the Governor’s office. It is also the world’s largest granite dome.
The Virginia capitol building was designed by Thomas Jefferson and based off a Roman temple. The center in the original part and the wings were added later. Its the second oldest behind Maryland and also served as the Capitol of the Confederacy. The building behind in Old City Hall and people on my tours actually thought harry potter was filmed there....Funny thing is Daniel Radcliff actually filmed part of Imperium there while I was giving tours. On the second highest hill in Richmond. Had planned to build on the highest hill so his friend ended up buying up all the land thinking it would take off in price...bad mistake.
Fun facts about the Texas capitol, the building is larger than the US Capitol Building. The construction was paid for in a barter instead of cash. The builders built the capitol in exchange for land in the Pan Handle area. And lastly, the exterior of the building is lined completely in Texas red granite which is what gives it it’s color.
He goes off about not liking so many capitols not looking like a state capitol, but rates New York very high, when it looks like a Victorian hotel... I like a lot of his stuff, yet at times he seems totally contradictory, which doesn't work well when you're rating things all the time.
Capital vs Capitol = two different things "Capital" with an "A" is used to describe either money/assets, to describe the first letter used in the beginning of a sentence, to describe a crime punishable by death or to describe a city that is the seat of government. "Capitol" with an "O" is used to describe the building or group of buildings where legislative bodies meet.
Fun bit of trivia about Minnesota's State Capitol: Its dome is the second-largest self-supported marble dome in the world. The only self-supported marble dome that's larger belongs to Saint Peter's Basilica, in the Vatican.
Utah local here and.... My breath is always stollen every time I see it. It is a beautiful sight every time. Especially against the backdrop of the Wasatch Mountains in the spring.
He should have shown the WV capitol grounds. They are not huge, but are a very lovely place to walk and includes a unique statue called "Lincoln Walks at Midnight,” depicting a somber A. Lincoln. One of my favorite depictions of President Lincoln. The complex also includes a really nice historical museum. There are far better pictures of the dome, and the gold leaf really shines in the sun. The inside is beautiful too, especially looking up into the dome.
6:58 The look of shock hearing Oregon being called weird is just funny to me. Not from Oregon but when you drive around Portland, OR which isn't their capitol but their largest city, you'll see a lot of bumper stickers and signs that say "Keep Portland Weird". They are proud of being called weird.
I've personally sung in the dome of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. From the outside, once you get up close, there are copper/bronze/gold statues and designs everywhere, its mythical. The dome itself is beyond acoustic, and the art and design is unparalleled.
Louisiana's capitol building reminds me a lot of Los Angeles City Hall. (The building featured in the old TV show "Dragnet" and on the badge of LAPD officers.
Some times it is not the exterior and the landscaping, but was inside it. I have been to the capitol building in Missouri it has beautiful marble walls and staircases. I also love the murals in the building that that depicted frontier life painted by Thomas Hart Benton.
Nebraska's Capitol building is also know as the Tower of the Plains, the dome can be seen from 20 miles away. Which why it has the tower as there are only small hills in the area, and was designed to be seen from afar. It has also has been the nesting sight of peregrine falcons for several years.
As a retired English teacher I concur with the previous comments. Capitol is only used to designate a building that is a place where a state or National government conducts it's formal business. All other uses of the word are spelled with al. Are you sure you don't have this rule?. 😊
I used to work across the street from the Texas capitol building and my work building was actually connected to it via an underground tunnel. It was actually quite a nice capitol and the surrounding grounds were also very nice. The confederate monuments were a bit unexpected for me since I’m not from the south, but that’s the kind of stuff you’ll find in Texas and in the south!
Kyle has a very narrow, parochial idea of what a state capitol "ought" to look like. Basically, he seems to think that if it doesn't look like the U.S. Capitol, it doesn't look like a capitol at all. Virginia's capitol was already completed and in use before the U.S. Capitol's cornerstone was even laid.
It’s only his opinion. Probably a million differing opinions on any given subject. Doesn’t make them right or wrong 😉 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder😁
A bit of trivia: Connecticut’s capitol building is on the original grounds of the college I attended, Trinity. The college traded the land for a larger campus on the (at the time) outskirts of Hartford. Trinity College’s seal still depicts the facade of the original college building which was torn down to build the current capitol.
I was surprised that Pennsylvania ranked so high! I grew up in the suburbs of Harrisburg and lived and worked in the city for a time. The view showing the bridge was the view I saw every day on my way to work.
I live in NH and the capitol building is really nice if you consider it was built in 1816 and it's the oldest capitol building where they still meet in it's original chambers.
I'm from Washington State and both myself and my mother worked there. The inside is stunning. But the outside is so costly to clean that unfortuately this guy did his review before it was cleaned and had never been inside. The Capitol and grounds are beauriful.. It's one of those things...unless you've been there in person you can't see what it's really like..
Utah has the most beautiful capitol I’ve ever seen in person. I lived in Utah for 3 years and it never ceased to amaze me seeing it at night on i15. With temple square all lit up, SLC is magical.
From Madison, WI and the skyline across Lake Monona with the Frank Lloyd Wright inspired building along the lake and our capitol building standing above is awesome. The capitol is on top of a hill and other buildings are limited in height so you can see the capitol from miles away.
Seen 48 of them in real life. Never been to Alaska or Hawaii but I would vote for West Virginia as the most picturesque, especially in fall when that golden dome shines in front of those trees in full colors.
Focus on the 46th Tour PA state capitol is a TH-cam video that will take you on a breath taking tour of one of the most expensive and elegant buildings you will ever see in the USA. Hope you take a look and enjoy. Let me know what you think.
Agree - Didn't WIsconsin have to shorten its dome so that it wouldn't be taller than the one in D.C.? I don't remember if that was a myth or truth. No matter which angle you photograph it, it looks as if it belongs where it is.
"Capitol" comes from the Ancient Roman "Capitoline", which was one of the Seven Hills of Rome and contained the buildings which were the center or heart of religious worship and government.
It is a shame the photographs do not include the entire grounds that make up each capitol's complex. North Dakota had the most lovely gardens leading up to the capitol building of all the ones I visited on a driving tour of state capitals one summer. (Side note about the interior: the lowest level I explored had a kind of miniature museum to honor North Dakota's heroes. Included among the honorees was Lawrence Welk, a fact I found nostalgically charming.) Surrounded to obscurity by towering office buildings, Ohio's capitol, which was undergoing extensive exterior remodeling at the time, struck me as the most forlorn.
just so you know, the Maine Capitol dome had been repainted to bronze around 2014-2015 which has since faded to a sort of dark brown which I think look even cooler than the green dome in the video
I grew up in Louisiana and went several years in a row on class field trips to the capitol. We loved going to the top. It has a beautiful view of the Mississippi River. The old state capitol is a beautiful building - especially on the inside. I live in Mississippi now and we do have a beautiful capitol building and the grounds are lovely. I was surprised he ranked it as high as he did, but it is definitely deserved.
The Nebraska Capitol building is the tallest building in Lincoln. By state law. It has a couple of nicknames. The Penis of the Plains or the Prick of the Prairie. You can see it from 15 or more miles out of the city depending on which way you’re coming from.
What's really interesting about the capital buildings isn't so much the outside architecture (altho I really like Hawai'i & New Mexico, totally cool vibes there), but rather the backstories on how each came to its final shape. Amazing stuff there. Also, those gold domes are actually covered in gold leaf, so the bright ones were done very recently to their pictures. But the best details on each building are the archetictural details inside. Those details make each capital building totally unique.
From what I can remember from my 6th Grade field trip to the state capitol, Louisiana has the tallest building. You can go all the way to the top and you can see much of the city from it.
Our capitol buildings are basically the same as your parliament house. They are mainly for each state's legislature and sometimes includes the state's supreme courts and/or the state's governor's official office.
What is the difference between capital and capitol? Capital can refer to uppercase letters, accumulated wealth, or the city that serves as the seat of a country's or state's government. A Capitol is a building in which the legislative body of government meets. In the United States, the Capitol is a building in Washington in which the US Congress meets.
I live in New York and have worked close to the Capitol building in Albany for many years, and I'm in the Vermont National Guard and have been in Vermont's Capitol several times. Both are quite nice!
Fun fact about the Georgia one, the gold on the dome was actually from in-state gold mines. While most people know the gold rush to go west, the first one in the US was actually to southern Appalachia, of which Georgia is apart of. There’s some really interesting history tied to it, both to getting the gold and to get it to Atlanta. It’s one of the few states that can say it’s caped with local gold 😊
First, I always liked how Florida kept the center section of the old Capitol surrounded by the modern tower and Senate and House offices as a visual metaphor for the state's change from a small, old Southern state to one of the largest populations in modern times. The view he showed from the west down Apalachee Parkway showing the tower with a dome on either side is also a visual metaphor for what state government is doing to all of us.
That color change is the result of the stone used which absorbed the exhausts of the heat source and manufacturing in the area. The city I live in is the capital of Michigan and the dome used to have row upon row of lights ....we used to go sledding in the park nearby and count the lights that were burned out. They removed the lights in the fifties and have cleaned the stone as much as they can but since they painted the dome, it still doesnt match. This guy is no architecture student.
Some interesting facts about Illinois and Iowa's state capitols. Both were designed by the same architect, John C. Cochrane. He designed the Illinois state house in 1868 and the Iowa statehouse in 1871. Iowa's captiol went through four architects supervising the work over the course of the 15 years it took to complete it (2 resigned or quiet and 1 died during construction). Only the last supervising architect stayed on the job until completion. I personally love the style and design of the Ilinois statehouse, mixing Second Empire, Rennaissance Revival, and Classical elements into one giant structure.
I was just in our state capital (Frankfort) today. I'll be there again most of the day tomorrow. I won't be near the capitol though. Our two largest cities, Louisville, where I'm from, and Lexington, both wanted to be the capital so they settled on a city more or less half way between the two which is why it's in Frankfort.
I live in North Dakota and I agree with you. We do need a new capitol building but the one thing that North Dakota and North Dakotans are known for is simplicity. We see no need to spend the money for a large ornate building when a cheaper one works just fine.
In Topeka Kansas this building is very nice. 60 miles. West of Kansas City. Man we got slammed yesterday with 80 mile hour winds I lost electric. Just came back on line shit I have tree's down in the back yard. But we're alive.
Capitol is the Building, and it is where legislature meets, similar to your Parliament Building. The Capitol is in the Capital, which is the city itself.
These buildings are mostly committee meeting rooms, a few offices, and the big floor where everyone argues out laws. There’s also a courtroom somewhere in there where state level judges talk out cases and they give out verdicts. The state senate is in a different building and so is the state’s congress. Usually more offices are around different buildings near the capitol building. The state courthouse which is usually the federal courthouse building is somewhere near the governor’s office for easy access though in New York it’s a panel of judges saying yes or no on aspects of case in New York City. Both sides must argue their opinions with supporting evidence and the judges decide if the case should proceed.
That’s not true. The Capitol is for the state legislature (both Senate and House) to do its business. States do not have a Congress. Many state Capitol buildings also house the Office of the Governor. Most state Capitols do not house the state’s judicial department, however. That department and the entire court structure is in a separate building that typically also houses the state Supreme Court and the Appeals court as well as state judicial department functions, like indigent defense, victims services, etc. state courthouses are administered by the states, not the federal government. I’ve never seen a state courthouse in a federal building, anywhere.
"Capitol" and "capital" are two completely different whose main connections to one another is that they are homophones and that you might find a capitol in a capital. The US took a very blatant influence from classical Greece and Rome in the neoclassical style that dominates a lot of the most important American public architecture. Styling legislative buildings in the young republic as temples of the people, the American founding fathers chose to name the federal and state legislative buildings after the Capitol-the Temple of Jupiter that once stood on Rome's Capitoline Hill.
Often if you see a dusty green dome on one of these buildings, the dome is made of copper. Our city courthouse has such a dome and periodically they have to clean it a put a protective finish over it or it turns from a nice bright copper color to a dusty green, due to the oxidation of the copper. Some like the look of the green and leave it as such.
field trip when i was like 9 or somin, we went to nebraska's capital, coolest thing ive ever seen since growing up poor in the slums of north omaha. so im bias. best part was all the lunchables with capri suns you can eat
The Louisiana Capitol was built by Governor Huey Long between 1930-32, that is the same time period the Empire State Building was built and they are both done in the Art Deco style that was popular at the time so that is why that have a similar look. There are still bullet holes in the walls from when Huey Long was assassinated in the building in 1935 just a couple years after it was completed. Also in the Senate chamber there is a pencil in the ceiling that was lodged there in 1970 when a bomb was detonated. It went off on a weekend so nobody was killed but they left the pencil in the ceiling as a reminder.
Indiana's Capitol Bldg's Dome is Copper. The green color is the Copper Tarnish. I assume several of the green ones are the same. West Virginia and Georgia the Dome is Gold (not gold colored). The Kentucky and Indiana Capitol Bldgs are made from Indiana Limestone which is closely similar to Florencian Marble and naturally colored.
We use capital too, but that refers to monetary things, as far as I can recall. It’s like the German, das Kapital. Same thing. A capitol refers to a building, but I believe the video is correct that a capital can also have a political reference.
CAPITOL and CAPITAL are two different words . The first one means the location of the head of government while the second one means money which one has available
Minnesota state capital has a huge lawn and down from it has a war memorial from ww1 to vietnam war if i rememberit right...its really cool,nice green lawn...nice place to visit... I miss my city of st.paul Now in california
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@@TheBeesleys99 I’m from Vermont, the dome on the Capitol building is Yellow not Gold.
@@TheBeesleys99I hope you guys enjoyed your English lessons in the comments about capital vs Capitol. 😂😂😂
Capitols refer strictly to buildings that house government legislature, such as the Capitol Building. the cities themselves are Capitals.
Letters and money are also "capital".
Wait till they find out about principal and principle.
Capital C Capitol D Capital
Whenever they (or anyone) are unsure, just use a dictionary (or Wikipedia even). Better to do that than to declare something incorrectly in their video because they didn't take a moment to look it up.
@@SWLinPHX It's ok to get things wrong. I'm sure they'd look it up if they weren't busy making a video.
Texan here, our capitol isn't dusty like he thinks but actually a shade of pink. That comes from a type of granite called Red Sunset that is native to Texas and was quarried from Granite Mountain just outside of Marble Falls, a small town in the Austin area. That same hue is on a lot of the government buildings in Austin.
I lived in Austin for 10 years and the Capitol is absolutely beautiful. It is pink limestone, as you stated. This guy doesn't always get it right.
I was thinking sandstone. Thank you for the info.
I know that building from Walker Texas Ranger. It's a good looking capitol building fitting for Texas.
@@rj-zz8imI couldn't take Kyle serious after the flag video.....but hey it's his opinions
@@rj-zz8im Granite. :)
The building is spelled Capitol with an “o”, while the city where the Capitol is located is the capital city with an “a”.
Capitol with an O Capital with an A. Capital Capitol.
West Virginia's dome is amazing and he didn't find the best pics to show the sunlight shining on that gold dome. An aerial shot from across the river really shows the beauty of the building.
I'm from Pennsylvania so I'm Happy he ranked # 3. Of course I feel it's the best. Theodore Roosevent said at the Dedication "That is quite the Handsomest Building I have ever seen!"
The Pennsylvania state Capitol is literally the same one that appeared on Rocky Balboa too.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworldDo you mean running up the steps? That's the Museum of Natural Art's and Sciences.
The Wisconsin’s capitol is X shaped because each wing houses different parts of the government. One wing is the assembly, one wing is the senate, one wing is the Supreme Court, and one is the Governor’s office. It is also the world’s largest granite dome.
And Wisconsin's Capitol is literally north south east and west
@@rono1506 great point. I had forgotten that.
The Virginia capitol building was designed by Thomas Jefferson and based off a Roman temple. The center in the original part and the wings were added later. Its the second oldest behind Maryland and also served as the Capitol of the Confederacy. The building behind in Old City Hall and people on my tours actually thought harry potter was filmed there....Funny thing is Daniel Radcliff actually filmed part of Imperium there while I was giving tours. On the second highest hill in Richmond. Had planned to build on the highest hill so his friend ended up buying up all the land thinking it would take off in price...bad mistake.
Fun facts about the Texas capitol, the building is larger than the US Capitol Building. The construction was paid for in a barter instead of cash. The builders built the capitol in exchange for land in the Pan Handle area. And lastly, the exterior of the building is lined completely in Texas red granite which is what gives it it’s color.
West Virginia's is absolutely gorgeous. I have seen it a few times in person and it's even better than in the pics.
He goes off about not liking so many capitols not looking like a state capitol, but rates New York very high, when it looks like a Victorian hotel... I like a lot of his stuff, yet at times he seems totally contradictory, which doesn't work well when you're rating things all the time.
As an Iowan, I totally agree with Iowa's Capitol ranking!! It is beautiful!!
Capital vs Capitol = two different things
"Capital" with an "A" is used to describe either money/assets, to describe the first letter used in the beginning of a sentence, to describe a crime punishable by death or to describe a city that is the seat of government.
"Capitol" with an "O" is used to describe the building or group of buildings where legislative bodies meet.
Fun bit of trivia about Minnesota's State Capitol: Its dome is the second-largest self-supported marble dome in the world. The only self-supported marble dome that's larger belongs to Saint Peter's Basilica, in the Vatican.
Cool, I grew up in MN and have since learned a bit about the Capitol building, but didn’t know that one.
I'm glad we can have different opinions and still behave in a civil manner. Thanks, from Texas!
Utah local here and.... My breath is always stollen every time I see it. It is a beautiful sight every time. Especially against the backdrop of the Wasatch Mountains in the spring.
He should have shown the WV capitol grounds. They are not huge, but are a very lovely place to walk and includes a unique statue called "Lincoln Walks at Midnight,” depicting a somber A. Lincoln. One of my favorite depictions of President Lincoln. The complex also includes a really nice historical museum. There are far better pictures of the dome, and the gold leaf really shines in the sun. The inside is beautiful too, especially looking up into the dome.
6:58 The look of shock hearing Oregon being called weird is just funny to me. Not from Oregon but when you drive around Portland, OR which isn't their capitol but their largest city, you'll see a lot of bumper stickers and signs that say "Keep Portland Weird". They are proud of being called weird.
I've personally sung in the dome of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. From the outside, once you get up close, there are copper/bronze/gold statues and designs everywhere, its mythical. The dome itself is beyond acoustic, and the art and design is unparalleled.
Louisiana's capitol building reminds me a lot of Los Angeles City Hall. (The building featured in the old TV show "Dragnet" and on the badge of LAPD officers.
Some times it is not the exterior and the landscaping, but was inside it. I have been to the capitol building in Missouri it has beautiful marble walls and staircases. I also love the murals in the building that that depicted frontier life painted by Thomas Hart Benton.
Our Missouri capitol is very beautiful and love the fountains around it outside.
Wisconsin here My 8th grade class trip was to the capital, the tour was cool and over looking the city is beautiful
It’s a beautiful lay out
Capitol is the building. Capital is the city. This is a ranking of the Capitols (buildings).
I never get tired of the views around downtown Annapolis. Simply beautiful, and a lot of history there.
That was a great stream Have a lot of fun really enjoyed you guys
Nebraska's Capitol building is also know as the Tower of the Plains, the dome can be seen from 20 miles away. Which why it has the tower as there are only small hills in the area, and was designed to be seen from afar. It has also has been the nesting sight of peregrine falcons for several years.
As a retired English teacher I concur with the previous comments. Capitol is only used to designate a building that is a place where a state or National government conducts it's formal business. All other uses of the word are spelled with al. Are you sure you don't have this rule?. 😊
I used to work across the street from the Texas capitol building and my work building was actually connected to it via an underground tunnel. It was actually quite a nice capitol and the surrounding grounds were also very nice. The confederate monuments were a bit unexpected for me since I’m not from the south, but that’s the kind of stuff you’ll find in Texas and in the south!
Kyle has a very narrow, parochial idea of what a state capitol "ought" to look like. Basically, he seems to think that if it doesn't look like the U.S. Capitol, it doesn't look like a capitol at all. Virginia's capitol was already completed and in use before the U.S. Capitol's cornerstone was even laid.
It’s only his opinion. Probably a million differing opinions on any given subject. Doesn’t make them right or wrong 😉 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder😁
A bit of trivia: Connecticut’s capitol building is on the original grounds of the college I attended, Trinity. The college traded the land for a larger campus on the (at the time) outskirts of Hartford. Trinity College’s seal still depicts the facade of the original college building which was torn down to build the current capitol.
I was surprised that Pennsylvania ranked so high! I grew up in the suburbs of Harrisburg and lived and worked in the city for a time. The view showing the bridge was the view I saw every day on my way to work.
I love how it looks at night. I have some very pretty pictures that were taken after 10pm.
I live in NH and the capitol building is really nice if you consider it was built in 1816 and it's the oldest capitol building where they still meet in it's original chambers.
New Hampshire has an unusual state capitol building
I am a former New Yorker who now lives near Raleigh, NC.
I can say without reservation that Raleigh is Hell's Armpit.
I'm from Washington State and both myself and my mother worked there. The inside is stunning. But the outside is so costly to clean that unfortuately this guy did his review before it was cleaned and had never been inside. The Capitol and grounds are beauriful..
It's one of those things...unless you've been there in person you can't see what it's really like..
I've been there in the spring and all the blossoms on the trees are gorgeous!
Utah has the most beautiful capitol I’ve ever seen in person. I lived in Utah for 3 years and it never ceased to amaze me seeing it at night on i15. With temple square all lit up, SLC is magical.
Too bad other people not from the state don't get to see it often. It barely gets any TV time.
Louisiana’s Capitol building is badass. And then he puts what looks like an apartment complex above it. Dude is off his rocker.
Yeah he even ranked Nebraska's state Capitol higher even though it looks similar. Pfft
Delawares capitol
Looks like Independence Hall in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
The Texas capitol has a steeply sloping lawn even though our governor uses a wheelchair. His arm strength must be phenomenal! 👨🦽
Indeed.
From Madison, WI and the skyline across Lake Monona with the Frank Lloyd Wright inspired building along the lake and our capitol building standing above is awesome. The capitol is on top of a hill and other buildings are limited in height so you can see the capitol from miles away.
As Sneakpeep said; Capitol is the actual building, Capital is the city.
Seen 48 of them in real life. Never been to Alaska or Hawaii but I would vote for West Virginia as the most picturesque, especially in fall when that golden dome shines in front of those trees in full colors.
You should probably see the Hawaii one next. The Alaska one might be hard to find or get to.
Utah's capitol has its teal dome with copper from the world's biggest man-made hole; that's copper's equivalent of rust.
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I'm glad my home state is your favorite! Also, you guys should do a ranking video with pictures of each state, that would be fun!
4:25 The building in front is ancient Greek architecture, actually far older style (historical) than the Gothic cathedral-like building in the back.
Focus on the 46th Tour PA state capitol is a TH-cam video that will take you on a breath taking tour of one of the most expensive and elegant buildings you will ever see in the USA.
Hope you take a look and enjoy. Let me know what you think.
As a Wisconsinite, I love our capitol building! Its beautiful and unique. Should be #1
Agreed. Even if I wasn't a Wisconsinite, I would rate it really high. The four separate wings at 90 degree angles just gives it a unique look.
It’s stunning inside too and it’s location on the isthmus makes it even more unique. ❤
@@beerbratscheese1230 agree!
@@andreaspeth9478 agree!
Agree - Didn't WIsconsin have to shorten its dome so that it wouldn't be taller than the one in D.C.? I don't remember if that was a myth or truth. No matter which angle you photograph it, it looks as if it belongs where it is.
"Capitol" comes from the Ancient Roman "Capitoline", which was one of the Seven Hills of Rome and contained the buildings which were the center or heart of religious worship and government.
Virginia's capitol is one of the few designed in the 18th century designed by Thomas Jefferson and NJs is photographed from behind
It is a shame the photographs do not include the entire grounds that make up each capitol's complex. North Dakota had the most lovely gardens leading up to the capitol building of all the ones I visited on a driving tour of state capitals one summer. (Side note about the interior: the lowest level I explored had a kind of miniature museum to honor North Dakota's heroes. Included among the honorees was Lawrence Welk, a fact I found nostalgically charming.)
Surrounded to obscurity by towering office buildings, Ohio's capitol, which was undergoing extensive exterior remodeling at the time, struck me as the most forlorn.
Oklahoma at 39 is a surprise. Its actually in need of a lot of repairs and in recent years was damaged even more by heavy rains..
just so you know, the Maine Capitol dome had been repainted to bronze around 2014-2015 which has since faded to a sort of dark brown which I think look even cooler than the green dome in the video
I'm from Wisconsin. Beautiful state all about! Probably visit in the fall. Colors are amazing.
I grew up in Louisiana and went several years in a row on class field trips to the capitol. We loved going to the top. It has a beautiful view of the Mississippi River. The old state capitol is a beautiful building - especially on the inside. I live in Mississippi now and we do have a beautiful capitol building and the grounds are lovely. I was surprised he ranked it as high as he did, but it is definitely deserved.
What a great capitol building for Louisiana.
The Nebraska Capitol building is the tallest building in Lincoln. By state law.
It has a couple of nicknames. The Penis of the Plains or the Prick of the Prairie. You can see it from 15 or more miles out of the city depending on which way you’re coming from.
capitol is the building. Capital is the city. as we learned in school.
What's really interesting about the capital buildings isn't so much the outside architecture (altho I really like Hawai'i & New Mexico, totally cool vibes there), but rather the backstories on how each came to its final shape. Amazing stuff there. Also, those gold domes are actually covered in gold leaf, so the bright ones were done very recently to their pictures. But the best details on each building are the archetictural details inside. Those details make each capital building totally unique.
From what I can remember from my 6th Grade field trip to the state capitol, Louisiana has the tallest building. You can go all the way to the top and you can see much of the city from it.
Being from Massachusetts my favorite is Boston. I just came from the live stream.
Our capitol buildings are basically the same as your parliament house. They are mainly for each state's legislature and sometimes includes the state's supreme courts and/or the state's governor's official office.
What is the difference between capital and capitol?
Capital can refer to uppercase letters, accumulated wealth, or the city that serves as the seat of a country's or state's government. A Capitol is a building in which the legislative body of government meets. In the United States, the Capitol is a building in Washington in which the US Congress meets.
I live in New York and have worked close to the Capitol building in Albany for many years, and I'm in the Vermont National Guard and have been in Vermont's Capitol several times. Both are quite nice!
interesting fact about the dome in Charleston, West Virginia, it's the biggest capitol dome in the U.S. even including the nation's capitol in dc.
Fun fact about the Georgia one, the gold on the dome was actually from in-state gold mines. While most people know the gold rush to go west, the first one in the US was actually to southern Appalachia, of which Georgia is apart of. There’s some really interesting history tied to it, both to getting the gold and to get it to Atlanta. It’s one of the few states that can say it’s caped with local gold 😊
The Georgia gold rush led to the trail of tears as the prospectors wanted the Cherokee lands.
First, I always liked how Florida kept the center section of the old Capitol surrounded by the modern tower and Senate and House offices as a visual metaphor for the state's change from a small, old Southern state to one of the largest populations in modern times. The view he showed from the west down Apalachee Parkway showing the tower with a dome on either side is also a visual metaphor for what state government is doing to all of us.
He didn't mention Iowa's Capitol domes are 24k gold leaf. Look up a photo of the capitol library. It's fantastic.
I live 1/2 mile from the California State Capitol. I love it!!
The New Jersey statehouse always reminded me of the Winchester mystery house. LOL.
That color change is the result of the stone used which absorbed the exhausts of the heat source and manufacturing in the area. The city I live in is the capital of Michigan and the dome used to have row upon row of lights ....we used to go sledding in the park nearby and count the lights that were burned out. They removed the lights in the fifties and have cleaned the stone as much as they can but since they painted the dome, it still doesnt match. This guy is no architecture student.
Indiana here. i been to state capitol twice in my life. Actually i met a former governor when i was down there.
In Madison Wisconsin no building can be built that is taller than the Capital building. The inside is also beautiful.
I'm from Texas. I'm glad you liked it. My two favorites are Wisconsin and Maine!
Louisiana's old state capitol is really cool. It's still there, mostly open to public tours.
It's incredible it's very unique for that state. It looks like a court house.
The Massachusetts Capitol was designed by Charles Bulfinch, the first American architect. He also designed parts of the national Capitol.
Some interesting facts about Illinois and Iowa's state capitols.
Both were designed by the same architect, John C. Cochrane. He designed the Illinois state house in 1868 and the Iowa statehouse in 1871. Iowa's captiol went through four architects supervising the work over the course of the 15 years it took to complete it (2 resigned or quiet and 1 died during construction). Only the last supervising architect stayed on the job until completion.
I personally love the style and design of the Ilinois statehouse, mixing Second Empire, Rennaissance Revival, and Classical elements into one giant structure.
I was just in our state capital (Frankfort) today. I'll be there again most of the day tomorrow. I won't be near the capitol though. Our two largest cities, Louisville, where I'm from, and Lexington, both wanted to be the capital so they settled on a city more or less half way between the two which is why it's in Frankfort.
I live in North Dakota and I agree with you. We do need a new capitol building but the one thing that North Dakota and North Dakotans are known for is simplicity. We see no need to spend the money for a large ornate building when a cheaper one works just fine.
Also I here there's not very people in North Dakota either which is understandable why it's small.
In Topeka Kansas this building is very nice. 60 miles. West of Kansas City. Man we got slammed yesterday with 80 mile hour winds I lost electric. Just came back on line shit I have tree's down in the back yard. But we're alive.
Millie is wearing her Palm Springs shirt to show how tough she is: It’s 120 degrees F this week according to weather reports I’ve seen.
They're in the city if Jersey, in England. But there's heat waves & water rationing even there.
Capitol is the Building, and it is where legislature meets, similar to your Parliament Building. The Capitol is in the Capital, which is the city itself.
These buildings are mostly committee meeting rooms, a few offices, and the big floor where everyone argues out laws. There’s also a courtroom somewhere in there where state level judges talk out cases and they give out verdicts. The state senate is in a different building and so is the state’s congress. Usually more offices are around different buildings near the capitol building. The state courthouse which is usually the federal courthouse building is somewhere near the governor’s office for easy access though in New York it’s a panel of judges saying yes or no on aspects of case in New York City. Both sides must argue their opinions with supporting evidence and the judges decide if the case should proceed.
That’s not true. The Capitol is for the state legislature (both Senate and House) to do its business. States do not have a Congress. Many state Capitol buildings also house the Office of the Governor. Most state Capitols do not house the state’s judicial department, however. That department and the entire court structure is in a separate building that typically also houses the state Supreme Court and the Appeals court as well as state judicial department functions, like indigent defense, victims services, etc. state courthouses are administered by the states, not the federal government. I’ve never seen a state courthouse in a federal building, anywhere.
I used to work in California’s State Capitol.
Americans spell capital with an A…except for the building which is spelled with an O and capitalized 😉
What did you do at the State Capitol?
Architectural Digest’s channel has walking neighborhood tour videos and breakdowns of characteristic local styles for many cities.
There’s only one right answer and it’s Texas’s capital 👍🏽 thank you for coming to my TedX Talk. ❤️ peace out
Denver’s capitol shows it history. The gold is Colorado gold and inside they have stain glass windows of founding Colorados.
"Capitol" and "capital" are two completely different whose main connections to one another is that they are homophones and that you might find a capitol in a capital.
The US took a very blatant influence from classical Greece and Rome in the neoclassical style that dominates a lot of the most important American public architecture. Styling legislative buildings in the young republic as temples of the people, the American founding fathers chose to name the federal and state legislative buildings after the Capitol-the Temple of Jupiter that once stood on Rome's Capitoline Hill.
Often if you see a dusty green dome on one of these buildings, the dome is made of copper. Our city courthouse has such a dome and periodically they have to clean it a put a protective finish over it or it turns from a nice bright copper color to a dusty green, due to the oxidation of the copper. Some like the look of the green and leave it as such.
Yes, the Statue of Liberty was originally copper before it corroded with the classic green patina (verdigris) finish.
this was fun!
field trip when i was like 9 or somin, we went to nebraska's capital, coolest thing ive ever seen since growing up poor in the slums of north omaha. so im bias. best part was all the lunchables with capri suns you can eat
The Louisiana Capitol was built by Governor Huey Long between 1930-32, that is the same time period the Empire State Building was built and they are both done in the Art Deco style that was popular at the time so that is why that have a similar look. There are still bullet holes in the walls from when Huey Long was assassinated in the building in 1935 just a couple years after it was completed. Also in the Senate chamber there is a pencil in the ceiling that was lodged there in 1970 when a bomb was detonated. It went off on a weekend so nobody was killed but they left the pencil in the ceiling as a reminder.
It’s 6:03 pm eastern daylight savings time in NC 🇺🇸
Indiana's Capitol Bldg's Dome is Copper. The green color is the Copper Tarnish. I assume several of the green ones are the same. West Virginia and Georgia the Dome is Gold (not gold colored). The Kentucky and Indiana Capitol Bldgs are made from Indiana Limestone which is closely similar to Florencian Marble and naturally colored.
We use capital too, but that refers to monetary things, as far as I can recall. It’s like the German, das Kapital. Same thing. A capitol refers to a building, but I believe the video is correct that a capital can also have a political reference.
The BUILDING is the Capitol. The city where the building is located is the capital.
I guess most capital building looks similar with that dome Topeka Kansas has a dome style.
Yeah, I agree about Virginia’s looking a bit similar to something like the Lincoln Memorial… has that Roman thing going…
CAPITOL and CAPITAL are two different words . The first one means the location of the head of government while the second one means money which one has available
I wish i could share the sounds and smells of summer in the south with all of you. They are amazing.
Minnesota state capital has a huge lawn and down from it has a war memorial from ww1 to vietnam war if i rememberit right...its really cool,nice green lawn...nice place to visit...
I miss my city of st.paul
Now in california
I've been in the Wisconsin state capitol, and it is beautiful.