Similarly to the Kansas Statehouse, a multi-year total restoration of the Oklahoma State Capitol was begun in 2015 with TreanorHL participating in a design-build team tasked with the exterior work. The large bronze ceremonial doors at the south entrance were in need of repairs, and I participated in early assessment work on their detailing and condition. The doors proved to be an exercise in careful investigative disassembly and interpretation of the original 1914 construction documents as a team with the contractors who would be performing the restoration work.
The doors in their context within the south portico.
The seal above the doors had paint applied to differentiate various features.
A long way down...
...and not yet at the top of the doors!
