Mississippi Capitol Dome Rotunda Detail
Description
The WPA approached the Mississippi state government to put painters to work during the Great Depression. Taking color cues from mosaic tiles in the Senate chamber, the WPA painted, among other areas, details of the main rotunda dome.
After a more recent renovation, Spartanburg, S.C.’s Herald-Journal reported that “Both chambers [of the Mississippi State Capitol] wear the duplicated colors of a gaudy 1935 Works Progress Administration paint job.”
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Mississippi Capitol: Senate Mosaic Tiles
Source notes
Mississippi State Capitol tour—local sources Spartanburg Herald-Journal, November 28, 1982
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 13, 2014.
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