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The Alabama State Capitol, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the First Confederate Capitol, is the state capitol building for Alabama. Located on Capitol Hill, originally Goat Hill, in Montgomery, it was declared a National Historic Landmark on December 19, 1960. [1] [3] Unlike every other state capitol, the Alabama ...
State capitol building of Alabama. A National Historic Landmark, it is open for tours and is operated by the Alabama Historical Commission. [14] Alabama State Council on the Arts (ASCA) Montgomery Montgomery Created by 1966 Executive Order from Governor George Wallace, established in 1967 by the state legislature. [15] Alabama Veterans Museum ...
Pages in category "State government buildings in Alabama" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
Capitol Park on Childress Hill is a park in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on a bluff above the Black Warrior River. It was the site of the Alabama State Capitol from 1826 to 1846, when the capitol was moved to Montgomery. The capitol building was subsequently used for Alabama Central Female College. It burned in 1923.
The State House was opened in 1963 as the Alabama Highway Department Building. It housed the Alabama Department of Transportation, then known as the Alabama State Highway Department, until 1985, when the Alabama Legislature moved into the upper floors while the Alabama State Capitol building was being renovated.
On the north side of Capitol Hill there is a monument dedicated to Alabama's more than 122,000 Confederate veterans of the Civil War, known as the Confederate Memorial Monument. The 88-foot (27 m) tall monument was dedicated on December 7, 1898, although it had been planned as early as November 1865. [ 1 ]
The owner was unwilling to sell the land on which the house stood, and the organization did not have the funding to move it. By 1919, with the help of $25,000 from the Alabama Legislature, the White House Association bought the house and moved it to its present location at 644 Washington Street. By 1921, it was restored on Washington Street. [5 ...