And not many places can say they have both an old and a new capitol. My name is bill parks. Welcome into the State Capitol of oklahoma. Spend a little bit of time taking a look at a beautiful building. Start here with solomon layton who was the principle ah, tekt on the capitol. This is a 1915 drawing of the capitol. And i show this to folks so they understand the dome was a part of the plan in the beginning. The building was built without the dome between 1914 and 1917. Did not build the dome then, they ran out of money. They built all the substructure for the dome. When we got around to building the dome, beginning in 2001, we were able to start at the roofline and go up the base of the building is covered with pink and black grahn et that comes from oklahoma, white Indiana Limestone on the main part. The dome is covered with a man made stone and thats how they were able to match the building as well as they did. Chosen for its durability youll see vermont marble in the baseboards, y