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The Minnesota State Capitol underwent a comprehensive restoration project from 2013 to 2017, the first major renovation since the building first opened. [ 51 ] Work began in 2013, with the project estimated at that time to cost $241 million, funded via a series of appropriations made by the Minnesota legislature. [ 52 ]
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]
First Minnesota Capitol building, expanded. ca. 1873. As more people moved to the territory, the number of lawmakers needed to represent them grew. On May 11, 1858, Minnesota becomes the thirty-second state to enter the union. The population boomed when Minnesota became a state, and the small Capitol building needed improvements.
Second Minnesota State Capitol, circa 1890. After fire destroyed the U.S. state of Minnesota's first capitol building on March 1, 1881, the second capitol, completed in 1883, served as the seat of Minnesota state government for just 10 years before state officials began planning a grander, more efficient Capitol.
The Department Administration building - 4. The Minnesota Capitol - 9. The Centennial building - 13. The Freeman building - 1. The Judicial Center - 4. The state Senate building - 8.
Mar. 14—The state has run an assessment of how many Minnesota flags and seals at Capitol-area buildings that will eventually make way for new emblems. Minnesota Department of Administration ...
Brany Guevara and her daughter looked up in awe at the masonry dome inside the Minnesota Capitol on Thursday, admiring nearby paintings before climbing the smooth marble steps leading to the state ...
The Progress of the State quadriga at the base of the Minnesota State Capitol dome.. Progress of the State is the title of a group of sculptural figures that sits above the south portico, at the main entrance to the Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul, the state capital of the U.S. state of Minnesota.