OLYMPIA — Officials described the damage to various historical artifacts in the Washington state Capitol building during last month’s break-in as “significant.”

And the price to mend such items? Well, it seems, not exactly cheap.

Lt. Gov. Denny Heck received a damage status report during a Nov. 13 joint meeting of the State Capitol and Capitol Campus Design Advisory committees.

“Pretty sobering,” Heck said.

Multiple flags and historic objects, such as a more-than-century-old piano, were burned or defaced during the Oct. 5 break-in. Officers arrested a suspect, 29-year-old Gunnar McLean Schubert. Prosecutors charged him with second-degree burglary and third-degree malicious mischief. He was released from jail with conditions, but without bail, and was ordered to undergo a mental health

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