Kansas State Capitol - Related online materials
These online materials provide further information about the Capitol.
Architects
- Erasmus T. Carr
- Seymour Davis
- Herman McClure Hadley
- John G. Haskell
- James C. Holland
- George C. Ropes
Artists
Artwork
- Ad Astra - installed on the dome in 2002
- Capitol artwork
- Curry murals
- Curry's statehouse studies - used in the process to create his murals
- Fedeli murals - controversial dome murals, which were removed
Building
Documents
Objects
- Artists brushes and palettes - items used on the murals by Lumen Martin Winter
- Chainsaw chair - made from the Capitol cottonwood tree
- Lunch carts - used by food vendors in the 20th century
- Mail carts - used for deliveries from the 1920s to 1950s
- Penitentiary table -
- Sculpture models - created to plan the Felten rotunda statues
- Stone tools - items used during the original construction
- Wooton desk -
Photographs
Stories
- Cottonwood tree - planted during construction, it lasted from 1867 until 1983
- Foucault pendulum
- Legislative war - items used during standoff in 1893
- Topeka tornado 1966
