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- Completed in 1835 for the modest cost of about $60,000 (about $1.8 million equivalent in 2020), the new State House of brick, wood, and stucco stood at Washington and Tennessee (now Capitol) streets, in the State House Square of the Ralston Plan.
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It houses the Indiana General Assembly, the office of the Governor of Indiana, the Indiana Supreme Court, and other state officials. The Statehouse is located in the capital city of Indianapolis at 200 West Washington Street. Built in 1888, it is the fifth building to house the state government.
Indiana became a state on December 11, 1816; Corydon remained the seat of government. The original Statehouse, a 40-foot-square building, was made of Indiana limestone and still stands. As more roads were built and settlement moved northward, a centrally located seat of government was needed.
With the completion of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (1901), the Federal Courthouse (1905), and the public library (1917) along Meridian Street, a movement grew to replace the 1888 Statehouse. Some said that the building was already too small for the offices of state.
When the General Assembly and state officials occupied the new Indiana State House in 1887 and 1888, they found a monumental, stately, and fireproof edifice, with exterior walls constructed of brick and covered with an oolitic limestone veneer.
Sep 7, 2022 · The Indiana Supreme Court is the most historically original room in the Indiana Statehouse, according to Goben. The wooden chairs seen in the photo are (for the most part) the original chairs from 1888.
In 1878 the Board of Statehouse Commissioners selected the submission of Edwin May, an Indianapolis architect, for the state's new capitol building. May estimated that his building would cost $1,792,911.60; the legislature mandated that construction costs not exceed $2 million.
The current Indiana State House is actually the second capitol building constructed in Indianapolis. The seat of government moved from Corydon to Indianapolis in 1825, four years after Alexander Ralston had laid out the city in the center of the state—the “capital in the woods.”
