Old
State Capital- Baton Rouge
Designed by New York
architect James Dakin and built in 1847-1849, a neo-gothic architectural
treasure! Mark Twain gave his opinion of it in 1881 in 'Life on the
Mississippi', "It is pathetic enough that a white washed castle should ever
have been built in this otherwise honorable place; it would have been so easy
to let dynamite finish what a charitable fire began." (It had been gutted by
fire during the civil war). Under the direction of Secretary of State W. Fox
McKeithen, the building opened as the center for political and governmental
history in 1994.
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