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The Minnesota State Capitol dome is the second largest self-supported marble dome in the world, behind Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, on which Gilbert based his design. The dome itself is actually made up of three domes or layers.
Minnesota State Capitol Board of Commissioners. In 1893, Governor Knute Nelson appointed the Board of State Capitol Commissioners to oversee the construction of a new Capitol following a recommendation by the state legislature, which had established a committee to investigate the need for a building and passed legislation procuring at least $2 million for the task. [3]
The Department of Administration has counted 120 flags in nearly two dozen buildings around the Minnesota State Capitol complex, all of which will have to come down in less than two months as the ...
A third-story viewing gallery ran across the south side of the room. [1] Senate Chamber, 2nd Minnesota State Capitol, ca. 1900. The Senate chamber, finished in yellow birch and birdseye maple, took up the Wabasha Street wing. A stained glass skylight, wine-colored stained glass windows in the gallery, a large chandelier, and four electric ...
Fowble and Fitz plan for New Minnesota State Capitol Site, 1894. On March 15, 1894, the board engaged the St. Paul civil engineering and surveying firm of Fowble and Fitz to prepare a report with diagrams of the site of the third Minnesota State Capitol. The site was bounded by University Avenue on the north, Park to Wabasha Street to Central ...
The Minnesota Department of Administration (Admin) is a cabinet-level agency and the central housekeeping department for the whole of state government. [1] Admin is the successor to the Commission of Administration and Finance, which was split into the Department of Administration and the Management and Finance Bureau in the Governor's Office by an act of the Minnesota Legislature in 1939.
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