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Capitol Dome Facelift Almost Complete March 4, 2014 / 11:26 PM MST / CBS Colorado DENVER (CBS4) - Crews continue to work on the renovation project at the Capitol.
A fight is brewing over how to fund repairs to the state Capitol dome, a century-old structure built of cast iron and rusting badly. For months, there has been a proposal to start a private ...
DENVER (AP) — The protective, weatherproof wrap that has covered the Colorado state Capitol dome for almost two years began to come off Thursday as completion of a $17 million restoration ...
The golden dome of the state Capitol could be toppled by Colorado’s rocky economy. The widely recognized but rapidly deteriorating structure led the state’s 2010 list of endangered historical ...
Every state has a capitol that houses its state legislature. Many are domed buildings similar to the US Capitol, but others ...
According to officials at the State Capitol, the dome’s copper panels were gilded back in 1908, 14 years after the government building was opened for use in 1894.It has since undergone four ...
This morning, boxes of gold leaf were delivered to the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol Building and officially presented to Governor John Hickenlooper. The gold, which was donated by ...
DENVER — Rita Carter stopped scrubbing long enough to laugh at Jim Riesberg’s question: “You’re still here?” Carter and other Colorado Capitol custodians had been hard at work for a couple of hours, ...
DENVER (KDVR) — Gold has never been cheap, yet the top of the Colorado Capitol building has been garnished with it for over a century. Turns out, Colorado’s spent millions on it throughout the ...
With fencing recently erected around the perimeter of the Colorado state capitol building, crews continue the cleanup of graffiti painted on the building's facade on July 20, 2020. in Denver.