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See this post above - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3648348

Stone isn't wood. If you have stone, you are talking a porous material and when the U.S. Capitol rotunda dome was renovated 10 years ago, the parts that were stone had to have special paint (most of the rest was wood or cast iron that had it's own special paint).

What is usually done with these types of buildings, is power-washing (I know my own FDR-era sandstone federal building was power washed back when funding was available for renovations in the '90s and later under Obama's ARRA program) but, they certainly didn't put any paint on it.

I had posted here the last time this came up - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143565982

And included in a reply there was a pic of that building under construction during the late 1800s -



Shrub's archived WH site had a history on the building - https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/history/eeobtour/historicalview-1800.html