The World's Most Beautiful Places
Looking up at the spiral staircase at the center of the Cape Blanco Lighthouse, along the Oregon coast, near the town of Sixes. The lighthouse was built starting in 1867, to protect commercial ships navigating near the islands and reefs that surround Cape Blanco. The central tower through which the staircase rises is made of brick, and rises three floors to the optic section where the lamp and fresnel lens are located.
Cincinnati Music Hall, built in 1878, and designed by architect Samuel Hannaford is considered one of the last and best examples of the Victorian Gothic Revival Style. It is home to the Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, May Festival Chorus, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The Utah State Capitol Building was constructed over 4 years, between 1912-1916. designed by Richard K.A. Kletting, it uses the Neoclassical revival, Corinthian architectural style.
The building houses two of three branches of state government. The Utah House and Senate, and the executive branch. The building houses the offices of the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and the state auditor.
Statues on the grounds of the capitol include those for Daniel C. Jackling, Edward Harriman, Thomas L. Kane, Martha Hughes Cannon, Marriner S. Eccles, and one to Chief Massasoit as a tribute to the Wampanogas chief who greeted the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts.
Utah’s first capitol building, known today as the Utah Territorial Statehouse, is located in Fillmore.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.