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The Kansas State Capitol, known also as the Kansas Statehouse, is the building housing the executive and legislative branches of government for the U.S. state of Kansas. Located in the city of Topeka, which has served as the capital of Kansas since the territory became a state in 1861, the building is the second to serve as the Kansas Capitol.
Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas MPS: 2: Benson Culvert: Benson Culvert: December 3, 2013 : 6 mi. S. & 9 mi. W. of Gove: Gove: Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas Thematic Resource 3: Grainfield Opera House: Grainfield Opera House: November 28, 1980
900, 902, and 904 S. Kansas Ave. Topeka: Turn-of-the-20th-century classical revival furniture warehouse significant in Topeka's commercial history. [6] Contributing site of the South Kansas Avenue Commercial Historic District. 41: HTK Architects Office Building
Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that is published by the Department of History at Kansas State University with financial support from the society. [6] [7] It is included with membership to the Kansas Historical Foundation. The journal covers research on Kansas and western history.
State officers first used the state capitol in 1869, moving from Constitution Hall, what is now 427-429 S. Kansas Avenue. Besides being used as the Kansas statehouse from 1863 to 1869, Constitution Hall is the site where antislavery settlers convened in 1855 to write the first of four state constitutions, making it the "Free State Capitol".
The Arizona State Capitol is now strictly a museum and both the legislature and the governor's office are in nearby buildings. Only Arizona does not have its governor's office in the state capitol, though in Delaware, Ohio, Michigan, Vermont, and Virginia, [1] the offices there are for ceremonial use only.
Topeka in 1856. Constitution Hall is on the left. While a permanent state capitol building was being planned, Constitution Hall was used as a part of the lemporary state capitol from 1864 to 1869. In an 1870s photo in the archives of the Kansas Historical Society, the temporary capitol is distinguishable from other nearby structures. [6]
The museum is a division of the Kansas Historical Society, which was founded in 1875 by Kansas newspaper editors and publishers. Its first home was in the Kansas State Capitol. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway #132 (which had been renumbered ATSF 2414), near the end of its service life in the 20th century, before restoration.