Model of the Southwest Corner of the Utah State Capitol

MODEL OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE UTAH STATE CAPITOL Showing the polished columns, each column to be a monolith thirty-one feet six inches high, by three feet eleven inches in diameter, weighing over thirty tons. There will be fifty-two columns of Little Cottonwood, Utah, granite. If adopted, this colonnade will be the only one of its kind in the world, and it will exceed all others, in number, size, and beauty of its monoliths. The plan is a modification of the idea of Junius F. Wells, who suggested a colonnade of one hundred and forty-three monolith columns of Vermont granite to represent the Utah pioneers, a column for each name. Afterwards he brought forward the plan and had the above model made to illustrate the splendor to be obtained by substituting polished monoliths for the built-up sectional columns of the architect's design.