# Wisconsin State Capitol: Granite Dome and Construction Questions

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069960172974285167
- Source account: [@HiddenCanada369](https://x.com/HiddenCanada369)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:53
- Published: 2026-06-25
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions) When I asked the tour guide if he believed what he was telling me, the answer he gave me is probably going to shock you.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=5) But I paid for the official government tour of this building, the state employee gave me the whole tour, and I asked him one thing, do you actually believe what you're telling me?

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=12) He looked at me directly in the face and said, only if it was a miracle.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=15) The guy whose literal job is explaining this place told me the only explanation is a miracle.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=21) Sent us to the one person who still trusts everything the tour guide says.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=24) So let me give you the numbers he gave me because the numbers don't lie and that's what got me.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=28) This is the only granite dome in the entire United States.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=31) Every other state capital, different material, just this one and I'm standing here looking at these columns thinking, where do I even think I am right now?

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=38) Rome? No. Wisconsin. Then I walk inside and tell me this looks like a government office.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=44) Tell me this isn't a cathedral. Marble. Frescoes on a ceiling.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=48) Built in the 1900s. In Wisconsin. And it looks like something they charge you 20 euros to walk into in Europe.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=54) And a guy pulls out this book, the architect, George B. Post.

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=59) Before this, he built the largest building in human history, the 1893 World's Fair, 32 acres under one roof.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=65) Then he died in 1913, four years before this place was even finished.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=69) Same pattern every single time. The dome alone, 2,500 tons of steel lifted in 1907.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=76) How do you even lift 2,500 tons of steel with ropes and horse teams?

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=79) Come on. And nobody on a tour even asked.

[1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=82) The women they put on top finished 1917, four years before women in Wisconsin could legally vote.

[1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=87) The tour guide called that a coincidence.

[1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=90) That which has been is what will be. There is nothing new under the sun, Ecclesiastes.

[1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=94) They wrote that down a long time ago. Save this one before it gets buried and send it to anyone who still thinks ropes lifted that dome.

[1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=100) Part 3 is coming and tell me I'm wrong.

[1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lPl33JulvH9i/en/wisconsin-state-capitol-granite-dome-and-construction-questions?t=111) Part 3 is coming and tell me I'm wrong.