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Oregon State Capitol (Salem, Oregon)

Creator Display
  • Ulric Ellerhusen (artist, 1879-1957)
  • Trowbridge & Livingston (architecture firm)
  • Francis Keally (architect, 1889-1978)
Date
  • 1938
Description
  • National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 1988)
View
  • exterior
View Date
  • 1980-07-26
Temporal
  • 1930-1939
MODS Note
  • Francis Keally, associated with the firm Trowbridge and Livingston, was the principal designer of this building which was Oregon's third capitol building. The exterior features concrete, metalwork, and four different varieties of Vermont marble. The gilded sculpture, The Pioneer, by Ulric Ellerhusen, rests atop the dome. Supported by a 23 foot marble base, the 8.5 ton statue is made of cast bronze finished with 23 karat gold leaf.
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon
Identifier
  • pna_09770
Item Locator
  • mdr05053
Source
  • Gift of Wallace K. Huntington from the estate of Marion Dean Ross
Provenance
  • Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Citation
Is Part Of
  • Capitol Mall (Salem, Oregon)
Conversion
  • This image is derived from a master TIFF (3000 x 5000 pixel, 16 bit) created by scanning a 35m slide which remains as the archival artifact. Digital editing may have included cropping, color correction, and removal of dust, scratch, or other artifacts reproduced in the scanning process.
Submission Date
  • 04/20/2015
Modified
  • 08/11/2022
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APA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. (16 Apr 2024). Oregon State Capitol (Salem, Oregon) Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67gt564

MLA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Oregon State Capitol (Salem, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. 16 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67gt564

Chicago

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Oregon State Capitol (Salem, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-16. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67gt564

Wiki

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