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Summary Information
Wisconsin. Capitol Commission: General Files 1903-1927
- Wisconsin. Capitol Commission
Series 833
20 c.f. (47 archives boxes and 6 volumes) and photographs
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records, mainly 1903-1918, of the commission created in 1903 (Chapter 399) and abolished in 1917 that supervised the construction of the fourth Wisconsin Capitol. Included are minutes; planning materials and the program issued to architects who wished to bid on the project; specifications and contracts; financial records; records of the Capitol Improvement Commission that was first organized in 1903 to remodel the third Wisconsin Capitol and expanded after the fire of 1904 to construct the new structure; and extensive correspondence of architect Lew F. Porter, secretary of the commission, and J. H. Gormley, construction superintendent. Within the correspondence there are letters to and from architect George B. Post and Sons, as well as copies of Post's correspondence with individual contractors; reports from the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory concerning construction of the steel superstructure of the Capitol, documents relating to litigation with the Northwestern Marble and Tile Company. Prominent correspondents include Edwin H. Blashfield, Kenyon Cox, James A. Frear, Cass Gilbert, O.O. Ingram, George H.D. Johnson, John Nolen, and William Freeman Vilas. English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser00833
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