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This aerial photo of the Capitol Visitor Center project site was taken December 5, 2006. Masons have completed setting most of the 200,000 8-inch-square granite paving stones that cover the East Front Plaza. Historic lanterns and fountains have been reinstalled, curving seatwalls have been rebuilt, and rock-face granite now covers much of both the CVC entrance façade and the long curving walls that line the pedestrian approach ramps. Many of the palettes of stone staged between the large Great Hall skylights (center of photo) will disappear early next year as that stone, 4,600 pieces of sandstone and marble, is installed in the East Front of the Capitol during the final stages of construction.
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