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The Nebraska State Capitol, the product of a nationwide design competition won by New York Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in 1920, is described as the nation’s first truly vernacular State Capitol.

The Nebraska State Capitol, the product of a nationwide design competition won by New York Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in 1920, is described as the nation’s first truly vernacular State Capitol.

A self-guided exterior tour provides the opportunity to learn about the Nebraska State Capitol when the Capitol is closed. The Nebraska Unicameral Legislature website includes a general map of the …

Once each month, the Nebraska Supreme Court’s seven appointed justices hear oral arguments in an acoustically perfect chamber finished with American Walnut wood.

The first two Capitols in Lincoln were poorly constructed of inferior materials and by 1915 there was interest in building a third State Capitol. In January of 1919, the Legislature passed the Mears …

The words “Nebraska State Capitol” do not appear on the exterior of Nebraska’s Capitol to identify the building. Instead, the names of Nebraska’s 93 counties circle the building’s 437′ square base to …

Currently the three branches of government and their immediate support staff are located within the Capitol. The Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches are located within the separate quadrants …

Moving the capital away from the eastern edge of the state in Omaha and further out into the new state was to encourage accessibility to the capital city from all parts of the newly created state.

Bertram Goodhue conceived of the Nebraska State Capitol as the dominant feature on the prairie landscape of Nebraska and specifically Lincoln. He envisioned the building’s soaring tower as a …