Florida’s state capital is housed in Tallahassee but how much do you know about it? The Florida Capital Complex website says the building “provides a dignified and serviceable headquarters for state government.” The Capital as currently viewed was finished in 1977 after five years of work overseen by Edward Durell Stone of New York and the firm of Reynolds, Smith and Hills of Jacksonville. Durell created the twenty-two story building to “reflect a modern Florida.”
The Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida, is an architecturally and historically significant building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Capitol is at the intersection of Apalachee Parkway and South Monroe Street in downtown Tallahassee, Florida.Sometimes called “The Old Capitol,” the Historic Capitol, built in 1845, was threatened with demolition in the late 1970s when the new capitol building was built.[3] Having been restored to its 1902-version in 1982, the Historic Capitol is directly behind the new Capitol building. Its restored space includes the Governor’s Suite, Supreme Court, House of Representatives and Senate chambers, rotunda, and halls. Its adapted space contains a museum exhibiting the state’s political history, the Florida Historic Capitol Museum, which is managed by the Florida Legislature. On April 18, 2012, the AIA’s Florida Chapter placed the Historic Capitol Building (Restoration) on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.
