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| name = Kansas State Capitol
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| location = SW 8th & SW Van Buren,<br/>[[Topeka, Kansas]]
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===21st century===
[[File:Topeka Dome.JPG|thumb|Looking up at the dome's interior in 2008]]
The building was featured prominently on [[Vehicle registration plates of Kansas|Kansas license plates]] issued from January 2001 until April 2007.
In December 2001, the Statehouse began a $120 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=120000000|start_year=2001}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) modernization project, led by Treanor Architects; the project included restoration of its first through fifth floors, the rehabilitation and expansion of its basement, restoration of its exterior masonry and copper roof/dome.<ref name="renovate">{{cite web|title=$332 million later, Statehouse construction nears its end|url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2013/nov/14/statehouse-construction-nearing-its-end/ |first=Elliot |last=Hughes |date=November 14, 2013 |work=[[Lawrence Journal-World]] |publisher=The World Company|access-date=2013-11-15|quote=Perhaps it is hard to believe, but the end of the construction at the Kansas Statehouse—about 12 years' worth—is nigh. Construction is expected to be nonexistent inside the building by the new year, when work on the roof and visitor center should be wrapped up. Meanwhile, miscellaneous exterior work is expected to be finished in the spring, according to Statehouse Architect Barry Greis.}}</ref> By the time the project finished in spring 2014, [[scope creep]] and delays resulted in a total cost of $332 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=332000000|start_year=2014}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}), covering "new heating and cooling systems, greater security and restroom accessibility, a new parking garage, visitor center, underground office space and replacing the roof and dome."<ref name="renovate"/>
In 1898, Jerome Fedeli painted [[fresco]]s near the top of the dome in the [[Rotunda (architecture)|rotunda]]. Fedeli's work depicted bare-breasted classical women. However officials referred to the paintings as "Nude Telephone Girls" and had them painted-over.<ref name="murals">{{cite web|title=Cool Things - Artist's Brushes and Palette|url=http://www.kshs.org/p/cool-things-artist-s-brushes-and-palette/10278|publisher=Kansas State Historical Society|access-date=2011-06-15}}</ref>
[[File:Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (left) and U.S. Secretary of Education --Arne Duncan observe a mural at the Kansas State Capitol in 2012.jpg|thumb|right|Kansas Governor [[Sam Brownback]] (left) and U.S. Secretary of Education [[Arne Duncan]] observe John Steuart Curry's ''Tragic Prelude'' in the second floor rotunda]]
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In the 1930s, [[John Steuart Curry]] painted murals on the second floor including the building's most famous painting—''[[Tragic Prelude]]''—which depicts an oversize and raging [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]] wedged between the warring sides of the [[American Civil War]], flanked by flames and a tornado. Curry's work gained considerable notoriety for depicting unsavory aspects of Kansas history and he left them unsigned and did not complete a commission to paint murals in the rotunda. Curry's depiction of Brown is believed to be the only instance of a person [[Virginia v. John Brown|convicted of treason]] being featured in a state capitol.{{citation needed|date=November 2013}}
[[David Hicks Overmyer]] painted a series of murals in the first floor rotunda between 1951 and 1953 entitled The Coming of the Spaniards, [[Battle of Beecher Island|The Battle of Arickaree]], [[
From 1976 to 1978, [[Lumen Martin Winter]] painted the murals in the rotunda.{{citation needed|date = June 2018}}
==See also==
* [[List of Kansas state legislatures]]]]
* [[Kansas Museum of History]]▼
* [[List of state and territorial capitols in the United States]]
* [[List of tallest domes]]
▲* [[Kansas Museum of History]]
==References==
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