Boise-based Hummel Architects has donated more than 100 original drawings and paintings of the Idaho Capitol, including this outline of the House and Senate chambers, to the Idaho State Historical Society. The Idaho Supreme Court, outlined at the top of the drawing, originally had a home within the Capitol. That room is now used for the Idaho Legislature’s meeting place for its powerful budget-setting committee, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee.
March 5, 2023
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Hummel Architects donates more than 100 original drawings, paintings of Statehouse to state historical society
In neat black ink, Tourtellotte & Hummel architects stipulated 12 outlets, at 60 watts each, would line the uppermost circle of the Idaho Capitol’s dome. In the ring below that? Twenty-eight outlets at 100 watts each. During a Tuesday press conference at the Governor’s Ceremonial Office at the Statehouse, Hummel Architects announced it has donated its original Capitol drawings and paintings to the Idaho State Archives, a division of the Idaho State Historical Society.