an ongoing effort that recently led to the reinstallation of its salvaged 2,000-pound copper cupola. Now Babcock, who on Tuesday was named director of the Smithsonian’s yet-to-be-built American ...

In the 1920s, when the Hall-Wilson Laboratory opened on Hartford Hospital’s campus, the brownstone edifice topped with a copper cupola was hailed as a center for medical research and experiments ...

The cupola finial is an architectural detail such as a knob, weathervane, or foliated ornament. Cupolas are made from wood, copper, vinyl, or composite materials. Many wooden cupolas are made of ...