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M. Frederic Butler, Reuben Clark, Gordon Parker Cummings: California State Capitol. U.S. National Register of Historic Places. California Historical Landmark ...
- 1860
- West wing: 3 ½ (4); East Annex: 6
The state held a competition for the design of a permanent State Capitol building. In 1860, Miner F. Butler’s design won and he received a $1,500 prize. Butler’s proposal utilized earlier designs by Reuben Clark, an architect who had previously worked on the Mississippi Capitol.
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The legislature accepted a plan submitted by Reuben Clark, a former carpenter from Maine, who had worked on the Mississippi State Capitol twenty years earlier. Clark’s plan called for a two-story structure, with basement, in the form of a Greek cross. The building was to have Corinthian-style columns with a rotunda under its dome.
Nov 6, 2023 · 73000427. Added to NRHP. April 3, 1973. The California State Capitol is a government building in Sacramento, California. It is the place where the California State Legislature meets. It also has the office of the Governor of California. The building was built between 1861 and 1874. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
California State Capitol. / 38.576572; -121.493411. The California State Capitol is a government building in Sacramento, California. It is the place where the California State Legislature meets. It also has the office of the Governor of California. The building was built between 1861 and 1874. It was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
- 1874
- Government offices
- 1860
- 10th and L Street, Sacramento, California
Gordon Parker Cummings, one of the first bi-coastal American architects, left his innovative mark on both Philadelphia, where he was in practice as early as 1844, and California, where he worked during two periods straddling the Civil War. By 1846 Cummings was teaching at The Carpenters' Company school of architecture, a position he maintained ...
In 1864 Ruben Clark was committed to a Stockton mental institution where he died in 1866. According to the hospital’s files, the cause of insanity was diagnosed as “continued and close attention to the building of the State Capitol in Sacramento.” Gordon P. Cummings took over as the supervising architect and completed the project.
