Abstract
Cover Photo: The rotunda of the Idaho State Capitol in Boise. This grandiose public space, eighty feet square and four stories high, was completed in 1912. Executed in marble, the room contains many murals and pieces of statuary and serves as the symbolic center of Idaho state government. Its architect, John E. Tourtellotte, was a carpenter with a sixth-grade education who had taken a correspondence course in architecture. Photo and caption by Charles T. Goodsell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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