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Chair
Patty Kim, Representative

03 May 2023

A Message from the Chair of the Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee:

On behalf of the members of the Capitol Preservation Committee, welcome to the
Pennsylvania State Capitol Building. For the past forty-one years, Capitol
Preservation (CPC) has directed over 160 individual long-term projects in a
successful and successive effort to restore, conserve, and preserve the artwork,
architecture, and history of the monumental, one-of-a-kind, Pennsylvania State
Capitol.

Designed by thirty-six-year-old Philadelphia architect Joseph M. Huston, and
constructed from 1902-1906, the building contains 640 rooms, outstanding and
priceless murals by Edwin Austin Abbey, Violet Oakley, William Brantley Van
Ingen, Vincent Maragliotti, and Donald MacGregor, sculpture by George Grey
Barnard, Roland Hinton Perry, and Vincenzo Alfano and the famed Moravian Tile
Floor by Henry Chapman Mercer. The building showcases stained glass windows,
marble from around the world, 24-karat gold leafing, massive bronze doors,
chandeliers, carpets, draperies, ornate woodwork and ornamental plaster.

Over the committee's forty-plus year existence we have taken great pride in
restoring the Capitol to its original 1906 grandeur. Some of our most prominent
projects are the restoration of the Main Rotunda murals and marble, the
conservation of the Commonwealth's historic collection of civil war battle
flags, the restoration of the Senate and House chambers, the completion of the
Governor's private office suite, and the removal and restoration of the statue
Commonwealth from atop the Capitol dome.

In large part due to the preservation committee's ongoing campaign of
restoration and sustained efforts at preservation maintenance, the Pennsylvania
State Capitol Building is widely recognized as one of the most beautiful state
capitols in the nation. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the
Main Capitol was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006. Additionally,
the entire Capitol Complex was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 2013.
As such the Preservation Committee looks forward to continuing restoration in
the ornate spaces within the other Complex Buildings, such as the Forum
Building's Law Library (completed in 2017) and the North Office Building's 104
Suite (completed in 2018).

As Representative of the 103rd District, where the Capitol is located, I am
honored to serve as the fourth Chair of the Capitol Preservation Committee. The
legacy and continued preservation of the Capitol and wider Capitol Complex is
important work and one that all Pennsylvanians can be proud of. I look forward
to working with both old and new members of the committee as we move forward in
the preservation of Pennsylvania's truly remarkable "Palace of Art."

Representative Patty Kim
Chair, Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee


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