this is a photograph by thomas eustig walter that he hung in his office while the wings of the capital were under construction. he was never commissioned to design a new don't but he thought with the capital nearly doubling in length that the old dome was out of scale and also this consensus that we needed to have a much more fireproof capitol building, he designed this new dome and honk this drawing in his office -- and honk is drawing in his office and members of congress would see it and were enamored with it. that quickly led to the first appropriation for the capital dome. here are some of walter's drawings of that wonderful cast- iron dome that he designed to make it look like masonry but it is fully of cast-iron. it is two domes. there is an inner cast-iron dome and outer cast-iron dome. you can see in the drawing on the right that not only are these working drawings of the time am a are really pieces of artwork today. they are beautifully drawn and water colored as well. he received an initial $100,000 appropriation for the dome. he quickly commenced design and construction wor