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Notes
1. Dean,
William B. "A History of the Capitol Buildings of Minnesota, with
Some Account of the Struggles for Their Location," Collection
of Minnesota Historical Society, XII: 27-28 (December, 1908).
2. Ibid.,
23. Also see Thompson, Neil B. "A Half Century of Capitol Conflict:
How St. Paul Kept the Seat of Government," Minnesota History,
43: 238-254 (Fall, 1973). Apparently the Ramsey County delegation had
been plagued by vote dealing on other issues to insure the Capitol stayed
in Saint Paul.
3. Minnesota,
Laws, 1893, Chapters 2 and 3. Chapter 3 amended the site selection
process and stipulated the three quarter mile limit. The quote is as
amended.
4. St.
Paul Pioneer Press, June 29, 1893.
5. Board of
State Capitol Commissioners, Biennial Report, 1895.
6. St.
Paul Pioneer Press, October 21, 1893.
7. Rascher's
Atlas of St. Paul, Minnesota. Chicago: Rascher Insurance Map Company,
1891.
8. This hill
is clearly seen in Minnesota Historical Society photo MR2.9, Sp2.1,
p288, dated ca. 1896. Also, the Bethesda Hospital site was occupied
by the mansion of Bernard Kuhl and later Frank O-Meara (Hoag Index,
MHS audio-Visual Dept.).
9. Fowble
and Fitz to the Board of State Capitol Commissioners, April 24, 1894,
State Capitol Commissioner papers, MHS Division of Archives and Manuscripts.
The diagrams exist in the State Planning Board papers 54.3.G.G.
10. Fowble
and Fitz, Diagram 2, State Planning Board papers.
11. Fowble
and Fitz to the Board of State Capitol Commissioners, April 24, 1894.
12. Board of
State Capitol Commissioners. "Instructions for Architects in Preparing
Plans for a New Capitol to Be Erected in St. Paul, Minn., Second Competition,"
St. Paul: Pioneer Press Company, 1895.
13. Holyoke
to Gilbert, November 5, 1895, Gilbert papers, MHS archives.
14. Gilbert,
"Memorandum Relating to Development of Approaches to Minnesota
Capitol, St. Paul," December 6, 1904, Gilbert papers.
15. Attorney
General's office to Channing Seabury, August 21, 1902, Commissioners'
papers.
16. Seabury
to Hon. C. F. Staples, House of Representatives, March 10, 1890, Commissioners'
papers.
17. This is
the earliest Gilbert plan found during research on this report. It
is dated 11/13/02 and contained in the MHS State Capitol drawings, #374.
Gilbert's lecture is described in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, November
14, 1902.
18. Seabury
to Gilbert, January 30, 1903, Commissioners' papers.
19. Gilbert
to Commissioners, Commissioners' papers, July 24, 1899.
20. Gilbert
to Chittenden, September 21, 1903, Gilbert pappers.
21. St.
Paul Pioneer Press, December 12, 1903.
22. Ibid.
23. Gilbert
to Seabury, November 11, 1904, Commissioners' papers.
24. Gilbert
to Seabury, November 21, 1904, Commissioners' papgers.
25. Gilbert,
"Memorandum Relating to Development of Approaches to Minnesota
Capitol, St. Paul," December 6, 1904, Gilbert papers.
26. Ibid, 6.
27. Ibid, 3
& 6.
28. Capitol
Approaches Commission. Report of the Capitol Approaches Commission
to the Common Council of the City of St. Paul, St. Paul: 1906.
29. These drawings
appear in Cass Gilbert, Jr.,'s article, "The Capitol Approach Plan,"
The Park International, May, 1921. The original 8 x 10-inch negatives
of these drawings are found in St. Paul Planning and Economic Development
papers, box 60. F. 1. 6F., MHS archives.
30. Minnesota,
Laws, 1907, Chapter 281.
31. Minnesota,
Laws, 1929, Chapter 124.
32. Herrold,
George. "Capitol Approaches, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1903, 1956,"
3.
Unpublished manuscript
at MHS archives and manuscript.
33. Ibid, 3.
34. Gilbert
to Commissioners, March 25, 1907, Commissioners' papers.
35. St.
Paul Pioneer Press, January 12, 1909.
36. St.
Paul Dispatch, April 10, 1909.
37. Wheelock,
Webster, "Resetting Minnesota's Capitol," Charities and
Commons, 19:18 (February 1, 1909).
38. Nolen,
John and Arthur Comey, "Preliminary Plan of the Central Business
District of St. Paul," May, 1911. Unpublished, MHS reference library.
39. St.
Paul Pioneer Press, October 12 and December 16, 1911.
40. St Paul
Dispatch, August 30, 1912.
41. Gilbert
to Nathanial P. Langford, December 31, 1907.
42. Plan of
11/13/02 contained in the MHS State Capitol drawings, #374.
43. Herrold,
"Capitol Approaches…," 5.
44. Herrold,
"Capitol Approaches…," 6.
45. Bennett,
Edward H. and William E. Parsons. Plan of Saint Paul, St. Paul:
Commissioner of Public Works (1922). A soldiers was memorial plan appears
to have been rendered by St. Paul architects A. H. Stem and R. H. Haslund
in an aerial view from above the Seven Corners approach (St. Paul Planning
and Economic Development papers, box 60. F. 1. 6F., MHS archives).
This makes an excellent contrast between Gilbert's 1907 drawing from
the same location.
46. Abstract
of minutes of the St. Paul City Planning Board, October 9, 1934, St.
Paul Planning and Economic Development papers, box 60. F. 2. 8F.
47. See McDonough
papers at MHS archives.
48. Minnesota,
Laws, Chapter 348, 1913.
49. Treasurer
(unsighed) to Julius Schmahl, State Treasurer, February 18, 1928, State
Capitol Grounds Commission papers, MHS archives,
50. Betz to
H. H. Hadlich, July 28, 1928, MHS archives. Jacob Kolliner to Betz,
July 17, 1928. St. Paul Dispatch, March 6. 1929.
51. St Paul
Dispatch, March 7 and March 8, 1929. Minnesota, Laws, Chapter
124, 1929
52. Minnesota,
Laws, Chapter 387, 1929.
53. Herrold,
"Capitol Approaches…," 7.
54. St.
Paul Pioneer Press, March 7, 1929.
55. Ibid.,
8. Herrold explains the whole episode of the State Office Building
and its location.
56. Cass Gilbert,
Inc., Report on Capitol Approaches. 1931.
57. Gilbert,
Cass. Jr., "The Capitol Approach Plan," The Park International,
May, 1921.
58. Gilbert,
Cass, "Capitol Approaches, St. Paul, Minn., Supplementary Report,"
March 24, 1931, 10. A hand-signed typescript of this report is found
in the St. Paul Planning and Economic Development papers, box 60. F.
1. 6F, MHS archives.
59. Ibid.,
11.
60. Ibid.
61. St.
Paul Dispatch, May 8, 1930.
62. The specifications
exist in the Executive Council papers, box 55. B. 4. 7B. Commissioner
of Administration and Finance to Ruedlinger Nursery, September 26, 1932,
Morrell and Nichols papers, Northwest Area Architectural Archives.
63. Minnesota,
Laws, Chapter 277, 1937. About the used car lot see Pioneer
Press, April 5, 1937. The exact location of this lot has not been
determined.
64. Lamson
to Lindsay, August 1, 1940, Executive Council papers, MHS archives.
65. These acquisitions
are outlined in Herrold, "Capitol Approaches…," 12.
66. Herrold,
"Capitol Approches…," 12.
67. Ibid.,
15.
68. C. H. Johnston
and Associates, A Suggested Plan for the Minnesota War Memorial Plaza,
1944.
69. Minnesota,
Laws, Chapter 315, 1945.,
70. Nichols,
Arthur, "Development of State Capitol Approact, St. Paul, Minn.,
by State Veterans Service Building Commission," 1963, 4. Unpublished
manuscript, MHS archives. For future reference, this manuscript possesses
a copy of the Morrell and Nichols overall development plan which succeeded
the Johnston/Nelson/Nichols plan of 1944. The two are quite similar
and can be compared by using an original colored copy of the latter
in the Charles Orr papers, also at the MHS archives.
71. Minnesota
State Veterans Service Building Commission, Report, 1945-1949,
5.
72. Minnesota
State Veterans Service Building Commission, "Program of the Competition
for Design of Proposed State Veterans Service Building in St. Paul,
Minnesota, April 10, 1946.
73. This plan
is seen in Nichols' paper mentioned above and dated 1946. Public announcement
of location of the Transportation Building apparently took place on
December 25, 1947, (untitled, but dated clipping in the Morrell and
Nichols papers).
74. Minnesota
State Veterans Service Building Commission, Report, 1945-1949,
7.
75. Ibid.
76. These dates
were gleaned from the clippings folder in the Morrell and Nichols papers.
Concerning the Transportation Building, Homer Clark, commission member,
said in an oral history interview in 1964, "The sad thing to me
is the Highway Building. And we had no control over that. That was
outside our jurisdiction. But they put on two stories more on it without
bringing it up with our commission and the next thing it was done.
But that hurt." MHS AV library, 14.
77. Minnesota,
Extra Session Laws, Chapter 13, 1967.
78. Interpro,
Inc. (a joint professional practice of Grover diamond Associated; Haarstick,
Lungren and Associates; and the Cerney Architects), "Comprehensive
Plan for the Capitol Area," 1970.
79. Kiley,
Dan, "The Master Landscape Plan" (two schematic plans for
the Capitol Complex), 1975.
80. Gilbert,
Cass, "The Greatest Element of Monumental Architecture," The
American Architect, CXXXVI:2574, 144 (August 5, 1929).
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