PATRON + Beautiful Alabama State Capitol burned [see story and photographs]
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at least there is an image. If I recall correctly, no one knows what the capitol at Cahawba looked like. Maybe a drawing will turn up.
It is hard to believe that no image of the capitol at Cahawba exists. Not even in the state’s archives?
[…] The original building is shown without a dome, and with broad steps leading up to the second floor, with entrances under the ends of the steps to the offices on the basement or ground floor. The new building was erected on the foundations of the old, but with a change in the general plan. A dome was provided, the entrance was direct to the first or basement floor, through a massive portico, supported by six massive Corinthian columns. The dignified and imposing building, as then erected, still remains with the addition of the rear and the north and the south wings. Click here to read more about Alabama’s State Capitol. […]
I am a native of Montgomery,and it still looks familiar even in it’s early stages.
Why is it still in Mount Vernon Alabama on the St. Stephens Meridian? The International Boundary…
Why is a Capitol there today?
The Secret of Alabama
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