It’s been 25 years since work crews last coated the massive gold pioneer statue atop the Oregon Capitol Building in Salem with 23-karat gold leaf. And it’s been a rough quarter century of roosting ...

“The Oregon Pioneer,” the gold-leaf covered, 23-foot tall statue atop the Capitol dome, symbolically faces West. The Oregon State Capitol, the third such building housing state government, was ...

The Capitol building has more than 540 rooms and has 658 windows. The Dome is 8,909,200 pounds of cast-iron with 108 windows and was constructed between 1855 and 1866. The statue at the top of dome is ...