The ceiling and pillars of the Rhode Island State House rotundra
Providence, Rhode Island
February 10th, 2016
The ceiling of the rotunda, showing four personified values with Latin names similar to the cardinal virtues. (Here: Educatio, Iustitia, Commercia, Litera.)
The current State House is Rhode Island's seventh state house and the second in Providence after the Old Rhode Island State House. It was designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White and constructed from 1895 to 1904. The building had a major renovation in the late 1990s.
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