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The Connecticut State Capitol is located north of Capitol Avenue and south of Bushnell Park in Hartford, the capital of Connecticut. The building houses the Connecticut General Assembly; the upper house, the State Senate, and lower house, the House of Representatives, as well as the office of the Governor of the State of Connecticut. The Connecticut Supreme Court (built 1908-1910), sits across Capitol Avenue in a different building. ==History== The current building is the third capitol building for the State of Connecticut since the American Revolution. The General Assembly of Connecticut (state legislature) met alternately in Hartford and New Haven since before the American Revolution. When in Hartford, the General Assembly met in the Old State House, designed in 1792 by Charles Bulfinch, (1763–1844), and when sitting in New Haven, in a State House designed in 1827 by Ithiel Town, (1784–1844). After the Civil War, the complications of this plan began to be evident, and both Hartford and New Haven competed to be sole state capital. Hartford won, and the new sole capital needed one central capitol building. The General Assembly authorized a million dollar project, and two competitors, James G. Batterson, (1823–1901), and Richard M. Upjohn, (1828–1903), vied to be awarded the project. Upjohn won, but Batterson, a stone importer and merchant and not an architect, was named the building contractor. Batterson then continually revised the Upjohn plan to more and more closely resemble his own plan. The central tower, for example, is Batterson's, not Upjohn's. Batterson's extensive elaboration of Upjohn's plan ended up more than doubling the cost to over $2,500,000.〔http://www.ctheritage.org/encyclopedia/ct1865_1929/newstatecapitol.htm〕 Richard M. Upjohn's design is in the "Eastlake Movement" style, with French and Gothic Revival styled elements. Construction of the building began in 1871. The building was completed in 1878, and it opened for the session of the General Assembly of Connecticut in January 1879.〔("Sites, Seals & Symbols," CT.gov. Retrieved 5 Jan 2007. )〕 ''The New York Times'' noted when it was completed, that the new building was "a vast mass of white marble (is) this imposing structure, and in the dazzling sunshine of a New-England Summer noon sparkles like a fairy palace of frost work."〔http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B04E5D91E3FE63BBC4151DFB0668382669FDE New York Times, June 29, 1879, "Hartford's New Capitol".〕 The site of the Capitol was chosen since it is adjacent to Bushnell Park and had access to more surrounding open space than the older building in the immediate downtown. The site was originally the location of the old Trinity College and was then known as "Trinity Hill", and the city street to the immediate east is still named Trinity Street. (The College relocated to a new campus south of the downtown.) There are some galleries of historical artifacts on the building's main floor, principally battle standards of Civil War units. The flags were deposited with the state by 10,000 of the state's veterans, who formed a procession to the Capitol, and deposited 30 regimental flags on September 17, 1879.〔http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05EFD91F3FE63BBC4052DFBF668382669FDE New York Times, September 18, 1879, Connecticut's Veterans Delivering Battle Flags to the Capitol.〕 The building suffered some crowding of offices, and the introduction of partition walls and other temporary expediants which detracted from the plan of the building up to 1979 and 1989 when efforts began at restoration. The State Capitol was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1971.〔〔 and 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Connecticut State Capitol」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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