Old Capitol Building - Olympia (WA)

5 /5 cristina solovey: This place is so beautiful! Very peaceful, would definitely recommend to go visit this place with family or friends. Inside it’s amazing all of the hard work that was put into building this place is amazing. The town it’s safe is very small and quit. But definitely recommend to stop by and check it out if your driving by you won’t regret it! To park I believe it was $10 but to enter in we didn’t have to pay anything. Also if your into photography it’s a great place to get some amazing pictures in.

5 /5 Joshua Fagan: Depending on my mood, I might call this the most beautiful building in the entire city. I understand why they made the move of the capital to a more traditionally neoclassical building, but I adore the Victorian age Romanesque revival, and this has a lot of elements of that. Theres the heavy, broad ceremonial arch and imposing turrets with conical roofs, as well as a general use of rusticated stone for construction: all of this contributes to the overall effect of the building, which others have noted resembles an old British castle. This kind of style, along with a mixture of the symmetrical and the exuberantly ornate, is very 19th century. The structure enobles and elevates the spirit above the mechanical routines of a mechanistic commercial world, as good architecture should. I also appreciate the intricate bronze statue of George Washington made for the bicentennial of the United States and placed in front of the arch.

4 /5 Frederick Bradbury V: Unfortunately, I was unable to visit the interior, but the exterior is phenomenal and well worth visiting. The George Washington statue out front is a great touch.

5 /5 Miss QJanJ: We went when no one else was around. It was a blast

4 /5 Timothy Weiss: An extremely beautiful historic old capitol building. Great architecture and stained glass. Nice park in front of it. Unfortunately there are a lot of homeless people sleeping in the park in front of it now. It is still worth seeing.