While reading online for something to do I read that there was going to be a tour of the Ohio Statehouse grounds, focusing on the sculptures and landscaping. It was to occur at 10 AM on a Sunday morning.
We arrived 10 minutes early, and waited until 10:15 and nobody showed up, so we decided to make our own tour.
We started along State Street on the south end of the grounds.
From here we had a nice view of the classic Ohio Theater as well as the flower beds along the entryways.
The statues flanking the McKinley statue are known as ‘Peace and Prosperity’.
While McKinley towers over the west entrance to the grounds.
The other side of ‘Peace and Prosperity’
Even the lamp posts are stylish.
There is a statue of a ‘Doughboy’ from World War I – this is the plaque beneath the statue.
The north entrance features a statue called ‘Peace’, with floral beds.
The sundial was added by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1932.
A second look from the south entrance across the grounds to the Huntington Bank Building.
While the northeast view from this vantage point looks towards the Statehouse, Senate building and PNC Bank Building. Clearly banks like to overlook the government buildings.
Christopher Columbus (with yet another bank building in the background)
Some of the famed Ohioans on the statue ‘These Are My Jewels’.
This statue is topped with Cornelia, a wealthy and respected Roman woman who when asked where her jewels were – pointed to her sons.
The back entrance to the Senate building.
Fountains in front of a World War II memorial wall. It seems almost all of the statues on the grounds have to do with war, or the hope for peace.
The grounds are fairly open to the streets, this fencing is decorative to protect the landscaping. We didn’t have a formal tour – but had a nice morning wandering the grounds with nobody else around.
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