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Item Title
Louisana State Capitol, North Boulevard, Saint Philip, America & Front Str, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA
LocationAmerica & Front Str,
Baton Rouge, LA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS LA-1132
Building/structure dates:
1849 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1862 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1882 subsequent work
National Register Number: 73000862
Significance: The Old Louisiana State Capitol is a sham castle, belonging to the early picturesque, or romantic, phase of the Gothic Revival. It represents the castle type, which rarely occurred in the American Gothic Revival where villa and cottage forms predominated. In addition, the Old Capitol is one of the only two ante-bellum Gothic state capitols in America (the other being in Milledgeville, Georgia), where the Gothic Revival was seldom applied to governmental buildings. The exterior facades of James H. Dakin and the spectacular glass and iron fan-vaulted rotunda of William A. Freret represent the work of two important nineteenth century architects.
Subjects
CapitolsOffices
Related Names
Dakin, James Harrison
Freret, William A.
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. WEST (FRONT) FACADE
2. WEST FACADE WITH GATE
3. SOUTH FACADE
4. SOUTH FACADE FROM SOUTHWEST
5. EAST FACADE
6. NORTH FACADE
7. WEST END OF NORTH FACADE
8. CENTRAL PORTION OF NORTH FACADE
9. NORTH FACADE ENTRANCE
10. EAST FACADE ENTRANCE
11. DETAIL OF WINDOW, NOWTH FACADE JUST EAST OF ENTRANCE
12. INTERIOR CENTRAL STAIRWAY, FIRST FLOOR LOOKING SOUTH
13. INTERIOR CENTRAL STAIRWAY, FIRST FLOOR LOOKING NORTHEAST
14. INTERIOR CENTRAL STAIRWAY, FIRST FLOOR LOOKING SOUTH NEWEL POSTS WITH LIGHTS
15. INTERIOR SECOND FLOOR ROTUNDA LOOKING SOUTHEAST FROM THIRD FLOOR
16. INTERIOR SECOND FLOOR ROTUNDA LOOKING SOUTH
17. INTERIOR LOOKING NORTH UP TO SKYLIGHT IN ROTUNDA
18. INTERIOR AREA ABOVE ROTUNDA LOOKING SOUTH
19. INTERIOR THIRD FLOOR ROTUNDA IRON WORK DETAIL
20. INTERIOR EAST LEGISLATIVE ROOM LOOKING NORTHEAST
21. INTERIOR WEST LEGISLATIVE ROOM, EAST WALL
22. INTERIOR WEST LEGISLATIVE ROOM, LOOKING SOUTHEAST AT EAST WALL
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