State Building – First

State Building – First

GII
B497 1851
F9 ALS. Detroit, March 4, 1851

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Elijah E. Meyers

MEYERS, E. E.  – ARCHITECT FOR MICHIGAN STATE CAPITOL
Source:  Lansing Republican, April 19, 1890
Article regarding architect for Central Methodist Church, Lansing, Michigan
Source:  Arts in Virginia (Vol. 2:3, Spring 1967)
Article by Carroll Meeks concerning E. E. Meyers structures in Virginia.
See 1971 correspondence:      Mrs. Martha A. Koellner, Macomb, Illinois.
Mr. William Seale, American State Capitols
Research Project, The [...]

Capitol War Relic Museum

Capitol – War Relic Museum
Resolution – Senate Concurrent Resolution #30 passed March 1, 1957 by the Senate and April 23, 1957 by the House places jurisdiction of the exhibit cases on the ground floor of the Captiol with the Historical Commission.  All other historical materials in the building are still under the jurisdiction of Department [...]

State Capitol Building

Capitol Building
Source:
1.     Bishop, Levi.  “Recollections of the old Capitol,” in Michigan Historical Collections, Vol. 1, P. 511.  Detroit.
2.     Butler, Alexander R. “A’ Wilderness Rejoicing’:  the New Capitol of Michigan,” in Michigan History, Vol. 38 (1954), pp. 273-284.
3.     “Michigan’s Old State Capitol Succumbs to the flames after thirty-five year of service,” extract, Lansing [...]

Austin Blair Statue – Capitol Grounds

BLAIR STATUE IN FRONT OF CAPTIOL
REPORT of the Blair Statue Commission, Lansing, Michigan, October 12, 1898.
Authorized by joint resolution of Legislature, May 8, 1895.  Approp. $10,000.00 Edward Clark Potter of Enfield, Mass., sculptor for sum of $7200.  Messrs. Bureau Brothers, foundrymen of Philadelphia.  Pedestal by Messrs. Donaldson and Meier, Architects of Detroit, $2293.94.  I Unveiled [...]