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clusion of the 2014 Legislative Session. The barrel vault above the grand marble staircase will be the last to be removed in May, 2014.
• The stained glass panels will return to the Capitol next year, with the Rotunda dome stained glass expected to return in June, 2014. The House and Senate chamber glass and the barrel vault above the grand staircase are scheduled to return in September, 2014.
• Kinsman said the goal is to complete the project in time for the state's 125th anniversary of statehood on November 2, 2014.
• Funding for the $2.7 million project comes from the Bureau of Administration's Maintenance and Repair fund. Conrad Schmitt Studios partnered with Sharpe Enterprises of Pierre to submit the winning proposal for the specialized project.
• Conrad Schmitt Studios was founded in 1889 and is the largest firm of its kind in the nation. Their past restoration projects include St. Joseph Cathedral in Sioux Falls, St. Mary Catholic Church in Salem, the Lawrence County Courthouse, state capitols in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame.
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