Let Shop Oklahoma Design your Web Site and Host it for you. The well was completed in 1942 and produced up to 600 barrels of oil a day before running dry in 1986. The building's architecture is classic Greco-Roman, designed by English architects Wemyss Smith and Solomon A. Layton. The Capitol has 650 rooms and 11 acres of floor space. The exterior is Indiana limestone and the base is Oklahoma pink and black granite.
Floors are Alabama marble and the stairs and wall bases are Vermont marble.
Width from north to south is more than 300 feet and from east to west is more than 422 feet. The rotunda spans 105 feet from the inlaid State Seal on the first floor to a leaded and stained glass seal on the domed ceiling. All ceilings throughout the Capitol display hand carved and hand painted detail. I soldier preparing to meet his troops, donated to the state by Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum. The mural was painted in Paris, France by Gilbert White in 1921.