Kentucky Capitol Interior 4 - Frankfort
by Gary Whitton
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Kentucky Capitol Interior 4 - Frankfort
Artist
Gary Whitton
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Photograph - Digital Photography
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Kentucky Capitol Interior 4 - Frankfort
The Kentucky State Capitol was built between 1905 and 1909 for a cost $1 million dollars. Located in Frankfort Kentucky, it is the fourth permanent capitol building, built in Kentucky. Two burned down, and the third stands not far from the current capitol building. The Kentucky capitol holds all three branches of state government, including the legislature, the supreme court and the executive branch. It includes offices for the governor, lieutenant governor, the attorney general, and the secretary of state.
The building was constructed in the Beaux-Arts style and features a number of French architectural elements. The designer Frank Mills Andrews was a distinguished and award-winning architect. The interior of the building includes a number of bronze statues - Abraham Lincoln (pictured), Henry Clay, Dr. Ephraim McDowell and Alben Barkley (a farmer vice president). Until recently Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy, was included among them. His statue was removed in 2020, and placed in Fairview, Kentucky, his birth place and the location of a monument built in his memory, in 1973.
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