Indiana Centennial Card No. 07

Description:	Series 1. No. 7. Third Capitol, Indianapolis During Lincoln’s FuneralM. R. Hyman, Pub., Indpls.The first structure that was intended as a permanent capitol, and which occupied the site set apart for that purpose in the original plan of Indianapolis, was begun in 1832 and finished in 1835. The work was put in the hands of Governor Noah Noble, James Blake, Samuel Merrill and Morris Morris, and the contract was let for $58,000 to Ithiel Town and I. J. Davis, the former of New York and one of the best-known American architects of the day. The actual cost was $60,000. In dimensions the building was 200 feet long by 100 feet wide, and was two stories in height. In style it was a combination of the Greek Parthenon and a dome that was foreign to the Greek architecture, and it offered, in that respect, an unintentional parallel to the incongruous linguistic elements of Greek and Indian in the dame name Indianapolis.The building was not a creditable product of the noted architect, as it was constructed in a “shoddy” manner, and forty years’ wear and tear made a dilapidated ruin of it. It was razed to make way for the present building in 1878. It occupied but one square, the grounds being bounded on the north side by Market street. Adapted from Cottman-Hyman Centennial History of Indiana. Copyrighted 1916.Indiana Centennial Historic Mailing Card 1816-1916
Origin:	1916
Publisher:	M. R. Hyman
Source:	http://michianamemory.sjcpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16827coll7/id/503
Collection:	Postcards
Copyright:	This item is in the public domain. For more information, contact local.history@sjcpl.org.
Subjects:	Indiana--History Indiana--Centennial Celebrations, etc.

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