Minnesota State Capitol number . THE WESTERN ARCHITECT THE NEW MINNESOTA STATE CAPITOL AT ST. INNESOTA, in the completion of herState Capitol, has placed herself firstamong the statesof the Union in pointof art, as she has long- held a premierposition in her natural beauty and coiii-rniercial ad)vancem/ent. WWile thereare other Western states still in theEgyptian darkness of inartistic capitols, the designs forwhich were controlled by the selfish interests of the lob-byist and the willful ignorance of those who have chargeof the peoples interests, Minnesota, through a board ofcomrnissio
Minnesota State Capitol number . THE WESTERN ARCHITECT THE NEW MINNESOTA STATE CAPITOL AT ST. INNESOTA, in the completion of herState Capitol, has placed herself firstamong the statesof the Union in pointof art, as she has long- held a premierposition in her natural beauty and coiii-rniercial ad)vancem/ent. WWile thereare other Western states still in theEgyptian darkness of inartistic capitols, the designs forwhich were controlled by the selfish interests of the lob-byist and the willful ignorance of those who have chargeof the peoples interests, Minnesota, through a board ofcomrnissioners that were at once honest and practical,secured, through a properly organized comoetition, theservices of one of the most talented architects the countryhas produced. It is notable that the last expression of architecturaldesign in public buildings should be made in k Westernstate. The capitol of Connecticut at Hartford and thatof New York at Albany, stand first in point of design inthe East. The picturesque capitol of Tennessee at Nash-ville, built befone the war, stands as an example of th
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