Hall of Shadows
by Pam Holdsworth
Title
Hall of Shadows
Artist
Pam Holdsworth
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
One of the many interesting views from inside our state capitol here in Nebraska.
The first State Capitol in Lincoln was constructed between 1867 and 1868. It was a two story building with a central cupola, made of native limestone. This first State Capitol soon began to crumble, the result of poor construction and inferior building stone.
In 1881 the first wing of a second State Capitol was completed and the entire building finished in 1888. This second Capitol suffered the fate of poor construction and was settling structurally when talk began of building a third State Capitol in 1915.
In 1919 the Legislature passed a bill to provide for the construction of a new Capitol, including provisions for a Capitol Commission to oversee construction.
The Nebraska State Capitol, the product of a nationwide design competition won by New York Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in 1920, is described as the nation�s first truly vernacular State Capitol. The present building, the third to be erected on this site, was the nation�s first statehouse design to radically depart from the prototypical form of the nation�s Capitol and to use an office tower. Constructed in four phases over ten years from 1922-1932, the building, with furnishings and landscaping, was completed at a cost just under the $10 million budget and was paid for when finished. To decorate the building, Bertram Goodhue selected Lee Lawrie, sculptor; Hildreth Meiere, tile and mosaic designer; and Hartley B. Alexander, thematic consultant for inscription and symbolism.
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July 19th, 2015
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