Elaborate ornamentation on the New York Capitol in Albany

So complex was work on the massive, elegant building, including its five-foot-wide, load-bearing granite walls, took 32 years and three separate architects, including Henry Hobson Richardson, before it was declared complete in 1899.
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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.