Idaho State Capitol in Boise
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In 1863, Lewiston was the original site of the capitol until Boise was made the capital of the state in 1890, the year when President Benjamin Harrison signed Idaho into statehood. The architects used four different types of marble to construct the building and their architecture was inspired by various sources and cultures. On the first floor of the capitol building, when looking upward to the dome, thirteen large stars and forty-three smaller stars can be seen. The thirteen large stars represent the thirteen original colonies and the forty three smaller stars indicate that Idaho was the forty third state to enter the union.
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