A functional government building. I would say theres not a lot of awareness about what happens behind the scenes and the fact that we have this collection and were definitely working to promote the awareness of these materials. We are standing in the House Chamber of the old state capitol. This building was built in 1830, began construction in 1827 and it was used as a Capitol Building from 1830 to 1909. For 79 years, this is where all of kentucky State Government met. The reason why frankfurt was chosen, its one of the four smallest buildings in the united states. The citizens of frankford we had the most resources and the most money to start a capitol here. The two previous Capitol Buildings that sat on the spot burned to the ground. This building is here, even though there is a current Capitol Building. It is a way to commemorate what went on in this building. They really thought long and hard about whether they wanted to keep it here in frankfurt, eventually they did. And they thou
Smallest buildings in the united states. The citizens offered the doors, the locks, the hinges, the lumber and a sum of 3,000. Which had t we had the most resources to start a capitol here. This building was our third State Capitol building. The two previous Capitol Buildings that sat on the spot burned to the ground. This building is here, even though there is a current Capitol Building. It is a way to commemorate what went on in this building. They really thought long and hard about whether they wanted to keep it here in frankfurt, eventually they did. And they thought about whether they wanted to put the capitol on this new property. It spared this building from being torn down the architecture of this building is very unique. Built in the greek revival style of architecture. The architect was a man by the name of gideon schrock. The two previous Capitol Buildings that sat on the site had burned to the ground. You would think after two previous buildings burning to the ground, they