LOUISIANA STATE CAPITOL

The 'Louisiana State Capitol' building is the capitol building of the state of Louisiana, located in Baton Rouge. The capitol houses the Louisiana State Legislature, the governor's office, and parts of the executive branch. At 450 feet (137 metre) tall with 34 stories, it is the tallest capitol building in the United States. It is located on a 27-acre tract, which includes the capitol gardens. The Louisiana State Capitol building is a National Historic Landmark.
As part of his gubernatorial campaign in 1928, Huey Long advocated the construction of a new, modern capitol building to replace the Old Louisiana State Capitol building, built in 1847. Ground was broken in 1930, and the 27-month construction completed in March 1932 at a cost of only $5,000,000.
In 1935, former governor of Louisiana, and then Senator Huey Long was shot in the Capitol building. He died two days later as a result of his wounds and is interred in the capitol gardens.
Long contracted New Orleans architectural firm Weiss, Dreyfous and Seiferth to design the building, and expressed interest in a tower. They took Bertram Goodhue's Nebraska State Capitol Building as their model, which was still under construction at the time. The building includes integrated sculpture by Ulric Ellerhusen, Lee Lawrie, Adolph Alexander Weinman, Corrado Parducci and Lorado Taft, among others.
The State Capitol was a major filming location for the film ''All The King's Men'' by Steven Zaillian, based on the novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren.

Contents

External links

External links

★ The Louisiana State Capitol Building

★ National Register of Historic Places information

★ History of the building, from the Louisiana State Legislature

★ Governor Huey Long Memorial by La-Cemeteries

★ Baton-Rouge-Guide.com photos and a review of a visit to the state captiol