Fourth Wisconsin Capitol (Madison's Third)

2 E. Main St.     Built 1906-17
Renaissance Revival through American Beaux-Arts Sensibilities     by George B. Post and Sons
Madison Landmark     National Register of Historic Places     National Historic Landmark
Made of White Bethel Vermont granite. 284.4 feet high from the ground floor to the top of the statue on the dome, just three feet and one-half inch shorter than our Nation's Capitol in Washington D.C.

• 1904 Third Capitol has major fire
• 1905 Legislature authorizes a new building commission to plan an entirely new Capitol building.
• 1906 Construction Begins
• 1909 First phase of the new building, the West Wing, is completed. The dome of Third Capitol is demolished.
• 1913 North Wing of the Third Capitol is demolished.
• 1917 Fourth Capitol is completed.

The Dome

Wings

Statuaries

Interior