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| Photo Credit: © Joseph Sohm; Visions of America/CORBIS |
BY LISA OSTER
Staff
Located on Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street stands Florida’s beautiful Capitol building that was built in 1911, although it hasn’t always been that way. During the 1820’s Florida legislatures were constantly transferring their governmental business between St. Augustine and Pensacola. Traveling could take up to twenty days which was extremely inefficient, and the travel path was hazardous. Tallahassee was chosen as our state’s capital in 1824 simply because it was in between the two.
Three log cabins served as our capitol buildings for thirteen years until there became a demand for a nicer, more legitimate capitol building. On March 3, 1839 Congress decided to build a 20,000 dollar capitol building that would not open until 1845.The new capitol was brick, and now open for session.
It wasn’t until 1911 that our Capitol building became the one that we currently use today. Periodic additions to the building have happened since then, including those in 1923, 1936, 1947, and then in 1972, which is when the legislature gave the government money for a new capitol complex that would include House and Senate chambers, offices, and a twenty-two story building. This extension was finished in 1977.
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