This year's marble ornament from the U.S. Capitol Historical Society is built around an authentic inlay cut from real U.S. Capitol marble, removed from the building during renovations in the mid-1990s. You are hanging a piece of the actual Capitol on your tree.
Around that centerpiece, the detailing draws on the Capitol's historic tilework and decorative motifs. Deep color and gold accents give the piece a formal, finished look that holds up well next to older ornaments in a collection.
Beacon Design made this one in the United States. They are a veteran-founded company. Each ornament ships in a keepsake box with a ribbon already attached for hanging, so it is ready to give exactly as it arrives.
Details:
- Materials: authentic U.S. Capitol marble inlay with gold accents
- Ships in a keepsake box with a hanging ribbon
- Made in America by Beacon Design, a veteran-founded company
Did you know?
The Capitol is built from more than one kind of stone. Aquia Creek sandstone went into the original building, and by the 1850s it had deteriorated badly enough that when Thomas U. Walter designed the House and Senate wings, he specified marble for the exterior instead. Quarries at Lee, Massachusetts, supplied the veneer. For the 108 columns on those wings, finished in 1868, the stone was Cockeysville marble out of Baltimore County, Maryland, and each column ran 26 feet long. The quarry had to be connected to a rail spur around 1866 just to move them. Marble from nearly a dozen states has ended up in the building over the past two centuries.