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...with white marble to match the Senate and House wings. The main section of the building between the two wings, although it has been altered, is virtually all that remains of the Capitol as it was planned in 1793. Since the great cast-iron dome was built in the 1850s to replace the smaller original one, architects, including Thomas Walter, designer of the dome and Congressional wings, have argued that the east fagade should be extended so that the dome would rise from the centre of the building instead of the east portico. Some sentimentalists noted the fact that...