High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States Capitol dome is the massive dome situated above the United States Capitol which reaches upwards to 288 feet (88 m) in height. The dome was designed by Thomas U. Walter, the fourth Architect of the Capitol, and constructed between 1855 and 1866 at a cost of $1,047,291.The cast iron dome of the United States Capitol is not the first dome to sit above the building, but the second. The origin of the first dome began with the Capitol design contest operated by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, at the behest of President George Washington, in 1792. The winner of the contest, Doctor William Thornton, called for a dome in his original design for the building. Most vividly, Thornton drew upon the Roman Pantheon for inspiration with the Neoclassical dome and associated portico. However, Thornton never received the chance to build the dome he envisioned.

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