Alabama State Capitol

The Alabama State Capitol (also First Confederate Capitol ) is the parliament building of the U.S. state of Alabama. It was built in the years 1849-1851 according to a design by the architect Barachiah Holt in neoclassicism on Goat Hill in Montgomery.

History

A first Capitol was built in Montgomery in 1847. Two years after its creation, a fire destroyed the building. On the foundations of the still existing State Capitol was built in 1849-1851. In the following years the building underwent several additions: 1885 east wing was mounted at the rear side, 1906 a south wing, an associated north wing was built in 1912 in the course of an extensive renovation of the entire building, a modern addition in 1992 also added on the back. . Constructive center of the house is a rotunda, which closes up with a dome. Murals inside depict scenes from the history of the state.

The Capitol was until 1985 the seat of both chambers of the Parliament of the State. With the start of renovation work in the year 1985, the entire government moved in the Alabama State House (formerly State Highway Department Building ). For this temporary relocation of the Constitution of the State had an additive are added, the meetings allowed elsewhere, as the Constitution requires the Capitol as the meeting of the legislature. After completion of the renovation of the Governor of the State, and numerous other state authorities moved back into the building. The two chambers of parliament remained in the Alabama State House.

The building also served as the 1861 Capitol of the Confederate States of America. To commemorate this event, a brass plate in the form of a six-pointed star was placed at exactly that spot, on February 18, 1861 took off his oath of office as the first and only President of the Confederate States at the Jefferson Davis.

On 19 December 1960, the Alabama State Capitol was declared a National Historic Landmark. On October 15, 1966, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.