it was truly billed as a temple of dmob si. ohio being a very young state. they wanted to proclaim to the rest of the country and the rest of the world for that matter, that we were going to be politically important and we believed in the democratic ideals that the greeks essentially began. so it was finally completed just at the beginning of the american civil war. so it's done with a coupe la on the exterior. we're one of the a handful of state houses that does not have a dome on the top. it was truly designed to be a cup la. greeks did not use domes. they used the flat ceiling or the flat roof. as the coupe la. domes on state houses did not become prevalent because of post civil war. because the troops were marched through the washington. that was just in awe spiring image. so many architects from the west further west they used that dome idea to design those state houses. 120 feet above our heads is a stain glass seal of ohio as it was in 1861. and as you gaze upon that seal, you notice the canal boat. because ohio was a big part of the eerie canal syste