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The largest building on the Capitol Campus, the Legislative Building stands at 287 feet tall and is the tallest masonry dome in North America. Constructed at a cost of $7.4 million between 1922-1928, the building is the crown jewel of the Capitol Campus. Funds to construct the Legislative Building were raised through timber sales on state lands gifted by the federal government upon statehood. Forty-two granite steps, on the north side of the building, lead up to the main entrance.

The steps are symbolic and commemorate Washington's admission to the union as the forty-second state. The granite was quarried in Index, Washington while the building's "skin" is sandstone, quarried in Wilkeson, Washington.

Entry to the 250,000-square-foot structure is gained through three sets of massive bronze doors with bas-relief representations of early Washington state history, including a sailing vessel, logging activity, natural landscapes and the Territorial Capitol.

Gazing up from this location the viewer will find intricately carved sandstone rosettes and Corinthian capitals.

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