Title: Wisconsin. Governor: Capitol Improvement and Supply Records
Inclusive Dates: 1839-1917

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Governor

Call Number: Series 138

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Correspondence of several Wisconsin governors with architects, prospective contractors, state officials, and others; bids; specifications; plans and diagrams; and reports and memoranda relating to the construction, maintenance, supply and improvement of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd State capitols. Included is material on the construction of fences and sidewalks in the Capitol Park, the collapse of the South Wing in 1883, the Capital Improvement Commission formed in 1903, and the reformed Capitol Commission which built the present Capitol after the 1904 fire. About this commission there are monthly reports, 1908-1910, of Lewis Porter, secretary of the commission; information on the selection of the architect; and some miscellaneous correspondence with George B. Post, the architect who was selected. Earlier architects who are represented include August Kutzbach, Stephen V. Shipman, and W.W. Boyington. Also included are contracts for maintenance and remodeling of the State School for Girls in 1904.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser00138

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Box   1 Folder   1	Miscellany, 1839, 1850-1866
Box   1 Folder   2	Artesian well, 1866-1873
Box   1 Folder   3	Boiler inspection, 1868-1876
Box   1 Folder   4	Capital removal, 1879
Box   1 Folder   5-6	Capitol Park fence, 1872
Box   1 Folder   7	Disbursements, 1872-1873
Box   1 Folder   8	Improvements, 1873
Box   1 Folder   9	Capitol Park sidewalks, 1872-1884
Box   1 Folder   10	Capitol Park boundary, 1884
Box   1 Folder   11	Water works, 1878-1879
Box   1 Folder   12	Addition, 1879-1882
Box   2 Folder   1	Collapse of the addition, 1883-1884
Box   2 Folder   2	Gas and electric, 1885-1887
Box   2 Folder   3	Treasurer's vault, 1890
Box   2 Folder   4	Miscellany
Box   2 Folder   5	Capitol Improvement Commission, 1903-1905
Box   2 Folder   6	Secretary's reports, 1908-1910
Box   2 Folder   7	Architectural section
Box   2 Folder   8	Cafeteria
Box   2 Folder   9	Chimney, 1908
Box   2 Folder   10	Coal vault, 1903
Box   2 Folder   11	Contractors' estimates to Ferry and Clas, 1904
Box   2 Folder   12	Executive vault
Box   2 Folder   13	Flag cases (Art Metal Co)., 1903-1906
Box   2 Folder   14	Governor's portraits, 1911-1913
Box   2 Folder   15	Heating and light, 1901-1912
Box   2 Folder   16	Miscellany
Box   2 Folder   17	Porter, Lew, 1906-1917
Box   2 Folder   18	Post, George B., 1906-1917
Box   2 Folder   19	Wisconsin School for Girls, 1904