I live in the Baton Rouge Area (South Louisiana) and have been meaning to go to Louisiana's Old State Capital building to take pictures of the main spiral
stairway in the center of the building. I have admired it for years and have never gotten around to having my camera with me on any of my downtown excursions.
Shamus O'Reilley has posted a few pictures of the stairway on Flickr and saved me the trouble. This is a metal stairway in the dead center of the lobby - first thing you see when you enter the building. The pictures are looking up to the stain glass ceiling.