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Texas Courthouses
Texas State Capitol Building
Location: Austin, Texas
Completion Date: April 21, 1888
Architect: Elijah E. Myers
Architectural Style: Italian Renaissance Revival
Materials: Sunset Red granite exterior, limestone core, cast-iron dome
Cost to Build: $3.74 million, funded predominantly via a barter of over 3 million acres of Texas Panhandle land (later the XIT Ranch); making one of the largest land-for-construction exchanges in history.
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