Georgia State Capitol
Georgia State Capitol | |
Atlanta, Georgia | |
Coordinates | 33°44′57″N 84°23′17″W / 33.74905°N 84.38813°W |
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Built | 1889 |
Architect | Edbrooke and Burnham[1] |
Architectural style | Renaissance Revival, Classical Revival[1] |
NRHP reference No. | 71001099 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | December 9, 1971[1] |
Designated NHL | November 7, 1973[2] |
Designated AHLB | 1989 |
The Georgia State Capitol is an architecturally and historically significant building in
History
The capitol site was occupied previously by the first
Architecture
Like many U.S. state capitols, the Georgia State Capitol is designed to resemble the Neoclassical architectural style of the United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C. Former Confederate general Philip Cook was a member of the commission that oversaw planning and construction of the building. The commission engaged architects Willoughby J. Edbrooke and Franklin Pierce Burnham, of Chicago to design the building and Miles and Horne of Toledo, Ohio for construction. Work completed in March 1889. Sculptor George Crouch executed all the ornamental work on the building.
The Capitol faces west on Washington Street. The
The open central
In 1997, the House and Senate chambers were restored to their 1889 appearance with replicated decoration and color schemes. This included the demolition of damaged plaster, the reinstallation of flat plaster at the dome, columns, and walls, and a decorative painting in the House and Senate Chambers.[2][5]
Georgia Capitol Museum
The museum within the Capitol, in existence since 1889, houses extensive collections representing the natural and cultural history of Georgia. Native American artifacts, animals, rocks and minerals, and fossils illustrate the diversity of the collections. Removed during restoration or renovation, most of the collection remains in storage. The portraits of governors, statues of famous Georgians, and historic flags from many wars are displayed throughout the Capitol. The portraits of all governors elected since 1850 are there, except for Rufus Bullock.[6]
The Georgia Capitol Museum is a
Liberty Plaza
In 2015, the state of Georgia unveiled a large public plaza just east of the Capitol named Liberty Plaza. After its opening, numerous monuments were relocated from other parts of the Capitol grounds to the plaza, including replicas of the Liberty Bell and Statue of Liberty.[7][8]
Dimensions
- Greatest north–south: 347 feet 9 inches (105.99 meters)
- Greatest central depth: 272 feet 4.5 inches (83.020 meters)
- Second-Floor Rotunda to ceiling: 187 feet 4 inches (57.10 meters)
- Dome diameter: 75 feet (23 meters)
Monuments on the Capitol grounds
- Governors
- Equestrian statue of John Brown Gordon (erected in 1907).[9]
- Joseph E. Brown (also U.S. Senator and Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court) and Elizabeth Brown (1928)
- Statue of Eugene Talmadge (1949)
- Richard B. Russell(also a U.S. Senator and in the Georgia legislature) (1975)
- Herman Talmadge (also a U.S. Senator) (1990)
- Statue of Jimmy Carter (also a U.S. president and member of the Georgia Senate) (1992)
- Statue of Ellis Arnall (also state Attorney General) (1997)[10]
- Other persons
- Plaque and tree honoring Ladies Memorial Association, January 19, 1930.[11]
- Statue of Benjamin Harvey Hill (Confederate Senator, US Senator and US Representative).[12]
- Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (2017)[13]
- activist. Erected in October 1923.
- Others
- U.S. Coast Guard Survey History Marker (1874)
- Reproduction of the Liberty Bell (1950)
- Statue of Liberty replica (1951)
- Spanish War Veterans Memorial (1967)
- Flame of Freedom (American Legion) (1969)
- Expelled Because of Color, a 6 feet (1.8 m) bronze statue, by John Thomas Riddle Jr., on the Capitol grounds (1978).[14] It was commissioned in 1976 by the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, and unveiled in 1978. The statue commemorates the Original 33, the 33 African-American legislators who were expelled from the Georgia legislature in 1868.
- Vietnam War Memorial (1979)
- DOGNY Project Sculpture (2002): 9/11 memorial, across the street from the Capitol [15]
- Statue removed
- Statue of Thomas E. Watson (erected in 1932, moved in 2013; Watson was a U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative, and nominee for vice president on the People's Party). In 2013, Governor Nathan Deal ordered the statue moved across the street to Park Plaza.[16]
Georgia's Old Capitol Museum
The Old State Capitol is at 201 East Greene Street, Milledgeville, Georgia, and served as state capitol from 1807 until 1867. The building was severely damaged by a fire on March 24, 1941[17] and was rebuilt in its former design to serve as a part of Georgia Military College.[18] The first floor of the old capitol is open as a museum.
Appearances
Some parts of filming of the premiere episode of the
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Georgia (U.S. state)
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Fulton County, Georgia
References
- ^ a b c "National Register of Historical Places - Georgia (GA), Fulton County". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. February 25, 2007.
- ^ a b "State Capitol Building (Georgia)". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009. Retrieved May 1, 2008.
- ^ "Georgia State Capitol | Atlanta, GA".
- ^ Jackson, Edwin L. (September 11, 2014). Georgia State Capitol. Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved March 9, 2011.
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- ^ Atlanta Journal Constitution article
- ^ Salzer, James (April 26, 2014). "Remake of Capitol Hill includes new, 'Liberty Plaza'". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Cox Enterprises. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
- ^ Bluestein, Greg (January 16, 2015). "State opens Liberty Plaza across from Capitol". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Cox Enterprises. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
- ISBN 0-915430-00-2.
- ^ "This Day in Georgia History. November 24, 1997. Ellis Arnall Statue Dedicated". GeorgiaInfo, an online Georgia almanac. Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
- ^ "Fulton County Historical Markers. To the Memory of William Ambrose Wright". GeorgiaInfo, an online Georgia almanac. Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the originalon December 11, 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
- ^ Atlanta Curbed
- ^ "Expelled Because of Their Color". Atlanta PlanIt (Public Broadcasting Atlanta). Retrieved September 8, 2018.
- ^ Waymarks
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- ^ HABS Survey GA-137
- ^ Edwin L. Jackson. Carl Vinson Institute of Government. The University of Georgia. The story of Georgia's capitols and capital cities Archived October 9, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Ross, Dalton (October 6, 2018). "The Walking Dead director answers season premiere burning questions". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
External links
- Georgia State Capitol Archived October 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- GeorgiaInfo.com listing/pictures of Statues and Monuments at the State Capitol complex Archived May 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- Atlanta, Georgia, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary
- Capitol Art Collection from the Georgia Archives
- Historic Ground historical marker