State

Capital City

Association

Alabama

Montgomery

Clue - the clock over the entrance.
Association - Alabama; first in the alphabet, first in time.

Alaska

Juneau

Clue - the basic and rugged block construction.
Association - being basic and rugged counts in the wilderness of Alaska.

Arizona

Phoenix

Clue - the filigree on the entrance pediment.
Association - resembles the snake, Arizona Elegans.

Arkansas

Little Rock

Clue - the massive and solid blocks next to the entrance pediment.
Association - solid like a rock - which rock? Little Rock.

California

Sacramento

Clue - the Indian statues over the pediment ends.
Association - action in statues is from fiction, "California" is from fiction.

Colorado

Denver

Clue - the skier in the drum columns.
Association - famous Rocky Mountain ski country, Colorado.

Connecticut

Hartford

Clue - the building looks like a castle / cathedral.
Association - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's . . . Cathedral.

Delaware

Dover

Clue - the building is red with white trim, delicate cupola tower.
Association - Manhunting poem - Delicate Della wants someone to wed - Della-ware.

Florida

Tallahassee

Clue - the building is a simple, post-like tower, one solid piece.
Association - the post end of the suspended cable car line from the geographical center (North Dakota) to the point farthest from it (Florida), in the one-word state of the two (Florida).

Georgia

Atlanta

Clue - the people-shaped drum windows, the lady in the windows.
Association - Who is she? Georgia, the state name that is a lady's name.

Hawaii

Honolulu

Clue - the building is modern with palm tree columns, an open crater in the roof, and a surrounding reflecting pool.
Association - new and like a tropical, volcanic, Hawaiian island.

Idaho

Boise

Clue - the tall, brown, largely smooth dome.
Association - resembles an Idaho potato.

Illinois

Springfield

Clue - the balconies around the drum.
Association - go out on the balcony to see what the noise is about - Illi-noise.

Indiana

Indianapolis

Clue - the small, round drum windows surrounded with sculpture, and the ribs between them with rounded tops at the bottom of the dome.
Association - snake holes and snakes, Indiana Jones' greatest fear.

Iowa

Des Moines

Clue - the five domes resembling ears of corn, four green in the husk and one husked and golden.
Association - the corn capital possibly of the world is Iowa.

Kansas

Topeka

Clue - the two stacked drum sections with different windows.
Association - the top drum section was carried there by tornado like Dorothy's house to Oz; "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

Kentucky

Frankfort

Clues - the paired columns around the drum, sculptures over the ends of the entrance pediment, pointed arches in the upper drum railing, and rows of square windows in the drum.
Association - all resemble horse-related equipment, for the horse capital - Kentucky.

Louisiana

Baton Rouge

Clue - the building is a tower with a tapered top.
Association - resembles a tapered dinner party candle, and our biggest party is Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Maine

Augusta

Clue - the entire entrance area and dome have clean lines with no decoration.
Association - clean, beautifully simple, plain Maine.

Maryland

Annapolis

Clue - the building is red with white trim, broad dome with cupola tower.
Association - Manhunting poem, Muscular Mary a boyfriend instead - Mary-land.

Massachusetts

Boston

Clue - the building is red with white trim, golden dome.
Association - Manhunting poem - The Boss was near with gold on his head - The Boss-ton.

Michigan

Lansing

Clue - the pointed spire on top of the dome.
Association - resembles a jouster's lance - Lance-ing.

Minnesota

St. Paul

Clue - the golden Quadriga statue over the entrance.
Association - charioteer would be a grand man, St. Paul would be a grand man.

Mississippi

Jackson

Clue - the eagle on a solid, ribbed dome.
Association - the eagle is a water bird, the drum looks like a flowing water fountain - our greatest flowing body of water that shares its name with a state is the Mississippi River.

Missouri

Jefferson City

Clue - the brown flat panel decorations on the dome.
Association - resemble the raft Huck Finn and Jim used on the Missouri River in the Mark Twain (who was from Missouri) book.

Montana

Helena

Clue - the people-shaped drum windows with half rounds for heads, solid square drum, mountainous black main dome.
Association - Anne or Anna? Substantial mountain woman, Anna - Montana.

Nebraska

Lincoln

Clue - the building is a tower with dome.
Association - resembles a tall, slender man - Lincoln was a famous tall, slender man.

Nevada

Carson City

Clue - the building is red with white trim, silver dome.
Association - Manhunting poem - And Quicksilver Carson? "Too far," they both said - Quicksilver Carson City.

New Hampshire

Concord

Clue - the double entrance columns in two equal layers.
Association - see the HHH for Hampshire (know Hawaii first).

New Jersey

Trenton

Clue - the entrance columns in two unequal layers, four over six.
Association - the fraction and the rhyme - The columns, they make two-thirds, see? This capitol's in New Jersey.

New Mexico

Santa Fe

Clue - the building is round and not very tall.
Association - built to resemble the sacred sun symbol, and it's in Holy Faith, or Santa Fe.

New York

Albany

Clue - the building is High Victorian style with no dome.
Association - resembles a mansion or hotel with many bedrooms, yet New York is the city that never sleeps.

North Carolina

Raleigh

Clue - the honeysuckle decorative ring on top of the dome.
Association - resembles a fancy ash tray - cigarettes, Raleigh brand cigarettes.

North Dakota

Bismarck

Clue - the building is a simple, post-like tower, looks like two pieces.
Association - a post end of the suspended cable car line from the geographical center (North Dakota) to the point farthest from it (Florida), in the two-word state of those two (North Dakota).

Ohio

Columbus

Clue 1 - there is no dome on a building that looks like it should have one.
Association - Oh-my-Oh-hi-oh, no-dome! Oh-hi-oh - Ohio.
Clue 2 - the four sets of windows on each side of the entrance portico, and the eight columns, or four sets of two columns each.
Association - sets of four for a four-letter name; (know Iowa and Utah first) Ohio.

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City

Clue - the windows around the bottom of the dome with a gable over each of them, and the buttresses below and between the windows.
Association - the windows, gables, and buttresses make faces with a surprised expression, like someone thinking "OK!" for Oklahoma.

Oregon

Salem

Clue - the building is an Art Deco capitol, the only one that is not a tower.
Association - Art Deco was the architectural design fad of the 30s (1930s), and the Oregon Trail was the pioneering fad of the 30s (1830s).

Pennsylvania

Harrisburg

Clue - the large number of ports in the dome and round windows in the walls.
Association - some playful giant child poked it with a pen! Pen-nsylvania.

Rhode Island

Providence

Clue - the huge cupolas around the dome.
Association 1 - the cupolas look like smaller versions of the main dome, like a mainland and four islands - Rhode "Islands."
Association 2 - the cupolas are colossal, like the Colossus of Rhodes - "Rhodes" Island.

South Carolina

Columbia

Clue - the unusually shaped, black cupola.
Association - resembles a man's head with a WWI helmet - connect it to South Carolina's special Civil War story.

South Dakota

Pierre

Clue - the huge alcoves around the drum.
Association - they resemble ears; big, stone ears like Washington's head on Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Tennessee

Nashville

Clue - it is a simple, rectangular building with a central cupola tower, and it is set on a hill.
Association - resembles a ship with one smokestack or a thick mast, and it is on a high sea - which sea? Tenne-see.

Texas

Austin

Clue - the very large entrance arch.
Association - they like everything large in the largest of our 48 contiguous states, Texas.

Utah

Salt Lake City

Clue - the evenly spaced columns across the entire front and the level roof line.
Association - the impression is orderly and regimented, like the common impression of the Mormon people whose church is headquartered in Salt Lake City.

Vermont

Montpelier

Clue - the wooded hill behind the capitol.
Association - the building is in the green (verd) hills (mont), Vermont.

Virginia

Richmond

Clue - it looks like a Roman temple on a hill.
Association - Thomas Jefferson, one of the most famous men in United States history designed several well known buildings, including this capitol. (OK, so it's not really an association.)

Washington

Olympia

Clue - the tiered roof line, and the alignment of the small towers over the pediment helps if the ends of the roof tiers are not visible.
Association - the ends of the roof tiers make a slanted "W" on each side, and the pediment and the towers make a straight one - hidden W for Washington (know West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming first).

West Virginia

Charleston

Clue - the entirely gilded cupola on the dome.
Association - our gold rushes always have been to the west, so go west to all that gold - West Virginia.

Wisconsin

Madison

Clue - the building is X-shaped, with entrances at all the ends and in the inside corners - watch for the setback of the wings when an end entrance is pictured.
Association - it's an X, like X marks the spot on a treasure map - got a treasure map - you wish, Wish-consin.

Wyoming

Cheyenne

Clue - the people-shaped drum windows with half rounds for heads, airy drum, gilded dome.
Association - Anne or Anna? A delicate, shy city girl, Anne. Cheyenne.