Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
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Historic American Buildings Survey,
Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey
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Virginia State Capitol, Bank and 10th Streets, Capitol Square, Richmond, Richmond (Independent City), VA
- Title: Virginia State Capitol, Bank and 10th Streets, Capitol Square, Richmond, Richmond (Independent City), VA
- Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Related Names:
Jefferson, Thomas
Noland & Baskervill
Frey & Chesterman
Peebles
Schwan, Lynda B. , transmitter
Price, Virginia Barrett , transmitter
Price, Virginia Barrett , transmitter
Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of General Services (DGS) , sponsor
Lindstrom, Frederick J. , project manager
Prothro, Kimberly , historian
Blom, E. Christina , field team
Cooper, Patrick C. , field team
Harrington, Nancy L. , field team
Houghton, Richard , field team
Powell, Kathryn E. , field team
Collins, Judith E. , field team
Parler, B. Carolyn , field team
Pfundner, Gerhard , field team
Boucher, Jack E. , photographer
Dolinsky, Paul D. , project manager
Alexander, Frances P. , project manager
Leach, Sara Amy , editor - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
- Medium:
Photo(s): 155
Color Transparencies: 12
Measured Drawing(s): 48
Data Page(s): 88
Photo Caption Page(s): 12 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HABS VA,44-RICH,9-
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Significance: The Virginia State Capitol, conceived in 1785, is the second oldest working capitol in the United States. Designed by Thomas Jefferson while he was in France, the building was modelled after a Roman temple, the Maison Carree. While Jefferson did not directly copy the Maison Carree, but modified it to accommodate modern necessities, he did respect the general temple form and introduced the Classical Revival style into America. A half a century after the erection of the building, the General Assembly commissioned Maximilian Godefroy to develop a landscaping plan that would supply an appropriate setting for the public building. The formal French layout that resulted was drastically transformed in 1850 by John Notman who turned Capitol Square into the first picturesque park in America. The Capitol building remained intact until the Capitol disaster of 1870 in which a structural failure caused the destruction of the north end of the building. Following the catastrophe, the building was restored only to be completely gutted, renovated and enlarged with the addition of 1902-04. This addition, designed collaboratively by the architecture firms of Noland and Baskervill, Frye and Chesterman, and Peebles, consisted of the addition of front stairs and two wings with connecting hyphens, to house the Senate chamber and the hall of the House of Delegates. 1964 saw a total restoration of the Capitol and a widening of the hyphens to accommodate stairs on the interior of the building and to supply more office space on both the basement and fourth floor levels. Since then no major changes have occurred.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-358, FN-359, FN-360, FN-361, FN-362, FN-367
- Survey number: HABS VA-1254
- Building/structure dates: 1785 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1870 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1904 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1964 Subsequent Work
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- Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HABS VA,44-RICH,9-
- Medium:
Photo(s): 155
Color Transparencies: 12
Measured Drawing(s): 48
Data Page(s): 88
Photo Caption Page(s): 12
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- Call Number: HABS VA,44-RICH,9-
- Medium:
Photo(s): 155
Color Transparencies: 12
Measured Drawing(s): 48
Data Page(s): 88
Photo Caption Page(s): 12
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