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The Texas Capitol

Austin became the Capital of Texas Jan. 19, 1840, and this hill was platted as Capitol Square. A modest statehouse built here in the 1850s soon developed structural flaws. The Constitutional Convention of 1876 set aside about 3,000,000 acres of ...

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Capitol Theatre

Constructed 1912-1913, the Capitol Theatre incorporated classical design and was stylistically advanced for its time. the theater's highly decorative Italian Renaissance style is significant as an innovation in the development of Utah architecture. The building, with its ornate facade ...

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The Pennsylvania State Capitol

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission declares The Pennsylvania State Capitol

A Commonwealth Treasure

for all to protect and preserve as a vital architectural and artistic monument to government by and for all Pennsylvanians.

Marker is on Commonwealth 0.1 miles south of North ...

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Capitol Square has long been the heart of the city

The Madison Heritage Series

Even before Madison was founded, people met to exchange money and merchandise not far from this spot. Five hundred Ho-Chunk camped near the square in 1832 to swap furs for trader Oliver Armel’s goods.

People began building businesses ...

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The First Capitol of the Republic of Texas

 

Near site of The First Capitol of the Republic of Texas

About 1833 Leman Kelsy built a story-and-a-half clapboard structure near this location. When Columbia became capital of the Republic of Texas in 1836, the building was one of ...

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The First Capitol

Wisconsin's Territorial Government

On April 20, 1836, Congress passed an act establishing the Wisconsin Territory, composed of the present states of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and the eastern halves of North and South Dakota. President Andrew Jackson signed the bill ...

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Site of the First State Capitol

The first major office building in Topeka was erected on this corner in 1857-1858. It was known as the Ritchie Block and in the structure in 1861 the Executive Offices and the Senate Chamber of the new State of Kansas ...

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