The $17 million restoration of the dome on the Colorado Capitol began in 2012 and ended earlier this month. This photo shows scaffolding surrounding the dome in late 2013. (Kathryn Scott Osler, Denver Post file)
Re: “After remodel, Colorado Capitol’s top and bottom don’t match,” Aug. 16 letter to the editor.
The letter from Garry Wolff indicated concern regarding the color of the Colorado State Capitol dome.
Over the past three years, the Capitol has undergone an unprecedented restoration, reversing more than a century of weather damage. A major goal of the project was to restore the dome to its historically accurate appearance. As part of that process, a team of historians and experts in architectural forensics and historic architecture determined that the dome’s original color was not the faded chalky gray that some may remember from before the restoration, but the color now accurately displayed today.
Denver Post readers interested in the full story about the dome’s restoration — and why the cast iron dome’s color is different from the granite below — can access fact sheets and other details about the capitol restoration project at www.colorado.gov/capitol/dome-restoration.
Larry Friedberg, Aurora
The writer is Colorado’s state architect.
This letter was published in the Aug. 20 edition.
