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Rotunda
 The Rotunda reaches 165 feet at its highest point. Twelve paintings around the arches and rotunda were a WPA undertaking during the depression years. The murals are epic in nature and contain over 100 figures, many of which are 10 feet tall.
The four largest paintings depict important scenes in the state's early history: the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition of 1776; John C. Fremont, who mapped the west for the federal government; Peter Skene Ogden, representing the heyday of Utah's lucrative fur trade from 1820-1850; and Brigham Young and Mormon pioneers who entered the Salt Lake valley in the summer of 1847.
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