Senate Chamber Restoration

The Colorado General Assembly first moved into the Capitol building in 1894. The earliest known dated photograph of the Senate chamber is from 1905. In the 1950s, the room was updated with white acoustic tiles covering the walls and a skylight. In 2013, one of our first projects began to restore the Senate chamber to its original appearance as depicted in the 1905 photo. These books and videos detail those efforts and showcase the restoration and renovation of the Senate Chamber over the last 10+ years.  Some of the areas uncovered during the restoration/renovation, which had not been seen since the original construction of the building, are documented in these books. The 2020 Yearbook tells the story of the Legislature during 2020 while Colorado dealt with a pandemic, historic fires, and protests.