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Replacing the Dome

Freedom, by Thomas Crawford, 1857.

Freedom, by Thomas Crawford, 1857.

 

Freedom, by Thomas Crawford, 1857

The last section of the dome’s crowning statue was put into place on December 2, 1863.

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