Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Friday, August 7, 2015

Montana State Capitol Building


Last week, I took my visiting sister to see the Montana state Capitol building.  She—like so many other people raised here in Helena—had never taken time to see the Capitol building.

She and her husband were impressed.

The Montana Capitol building officially opened for use on July 4, 1902.  The dome is covered with copper—a metal that largely defined Montana’s history for the first forty years of statehood.  Inside the building, you find yourself wrapped in brilliant colors and natural daylight that fills the stairways and dome.  The columns and open spaces and rising constructions are awe inspiring.

I have posted photographs of the Capitol in previous blogs, but cannot resist doing so again.  These photographs were captured with my smarter-than-me-phone.




--Mitchell Hegman

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