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The Nevada State Capitol is the state capitol building of the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located in the state capital of Carson City at 101 N. Carson Street. The building was constructed between 1869 and 1871.
The site of Nevada's capitol was for some time unclear, and the subject of some scheming. As Mark Twain wrote in Roughing It, today's capitol site was in 1861 "a large, unfenced, level vacancy, with a liberty pole in it, and very useful as a place for public auctions, horse trades, mass meetings, and likewise for teamsters to camp in."
The "act to provide for the erection of a State Capitol" was passed and signed into law in 1869. Construction bids were taken, an architect was selected for a fee not to exceed $250 (Joseph Gosling of San Francisco), and the cornerstone laid in 1870, and the fourth session of the state legislature met in the still-incomplete building that same year. Construction was completed by 1871. Several of the architect's original drawings are preserved in the state archives. Although the lowest bidder was selected for construction, actual costs ran well above budget to some $170,000.
The original building was cruciform, with a central rectangle 76 feet wide by 85 feet deep. It had with two wings, each 35 feet wide by 52 feet deep. The windows' glass panes are made of 26 ounce French crystal, as are those above the doors. Floors and wainscotting are of Alaskan marble, shipped to San Francisco in 20-ton blocks and there cut and polished for installation.
References
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record : Nevada State Capitol, Plaza at Carson Street, Carson City, Carson City County, NV, HABS No. NEV-13-5, Library of Congress
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