The Louisiana Capitol is one stop in the Galaxie’s continuing journey to photograph America’s state capitol buildings. This page is ready to grow as new photographs and stories are added.
Louisiana Capitol
Reference photograph and information from Wikipedia.
The Galaxie at the Capitol
The 1966 Galaxie at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge.
Capitol and Capital City History
Completed in 1932, Louisiana’s Art Deco Capitol rises 450 feet and remains the tallest state capitol in the nation. Governor Huey Long championed the skyscraper design as a modern break from traditional domed capitols.
Baton Rouge became the capital in 1849 as lawmakers sought a location away from New Orleans’s concentrated political and commercial influence. The government briefly returned to New Orleans before Baton Rouge became permanent after Reconstruction.