Kentucky Capitol Interior Dome with Lincoln Statue – Frankfort
Kentucky Capitol Interior Dome with Lincoln Statue – Frankfort
The Kentucky State Capitol was built between 1905 and 1909 for a cost $1 million dollars. Located in Frankfort Kentucky, it is the fourth permanent capitol building, built in Kentucky. Two burned down, and the third stands not far from the current capitol building. The Kentucky capitol holds all three branches of state government, including the legislature, the supreme court and the executive branch. It includes offices for the governor, lieutenant governor, the attorney general, and the secretary of state.
The building was constructed in the Beaux-Arts style and features a number of French architectural elements. The designer Frank Mills Andrews was a distinguished and award-winning architect. The interior of the building includes a number of bronze statues – Abraham Lincoln (pictured), Henry Clay, Dr. Ephraim McDowell and Alben Barkley (a farmer vice president). Until recently Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy, was included among them. His statue was removed in 2020, and placed in Fairview, Kentucky, his birth place and the location of a monument built in his memory, in 1973.
On a side note, the Kentucky State Capitol reminds me quite a bit of the Utah state capitol inside, and was built around the same time period (1912-1916). Even though they consider the Utah building Neoclassical revival, Corinthian style architecture
Kentucky Government: State Capitol Building
Explore Kentucky: Old State House
