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- With the influx of settlers to Iowa, citizens felt the state's capital should be moved to a more central location. The Iowa General Assembly chose Des Moines as the new city. The Iowa State Capitol is also called the Iowa Statehouse.
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History. Construction. Not long after achieving statehood, Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City, and the 1st General Assembly, in 1846, authorized a commission to select a location.
Back in 1871, when the first earth was broken on a hill on Des Moines’ east side, the capitol was an expression of faith. In this segment is from Iowa PBS’s This Old Statehouse documentary, learn about the building of Iowa’s historic capitol building.
The temporary State Capitol stood for thirty years where the Soldiers and Sailors Monument is currently. The permanent capitol cost close to 375 million dollars and took seventeen years (1871-1886), and when the money ran out, it was still not complete.
The 1860 Iowa general assembly had declared that the new building was to be built for no more than 1.5 million dollars. In 1904, as work on the interior was nearing completion, a fire in the north wing severely damaged the house chamber, as well as nearby offices.
TERRITORIAL CAPITOL The territory of Iowa was created in 1838 with Robert Lucas, of Ohio as its first governor. He selected Burlington as the capitol. Population was moving westward and the 2nd Legislative Assembly chose to change the Capitol to Iowa City. The old Capitol Building was started and Iowa City became the
Instead of being a white shimmering pile on a hilltop, the Iowa capitol is a varied, warm-colored building that fits, at least symbolically, what the twentieth-century critic Lewis Mumford labeled, “The Brown Decades.” The exterior of the central dome of the capitol was first gilded in 1882, and was re-gilded in 1965.
The building was constructed between 1871 and 1886, and is the only five-domed capitol in the country. Source-Dependent Questions. With the influx of settlers to Iowa, citizens felt the state's capital should be moved to a more central location. Why is it important for a state capitol to be in a central location within a state?
