Postcards, Louisiana State Capitol (Baton Rouge, La.)
Louisiana State Capitol. Thirty four stories high. Tallest building in the South being 450 feet high. There are 249,000 square feet of usable floor space Cost of Capitol $5,000,000. Over 30 varieties of marble and stone were used in its...
Postcards, Louisiana State Capitol (Baton Rouge, La.)
Louisiana State Capitol. Thirty four stories high. Tallest building in the South being 450 feet high. There are 249,000 square feet of usable floor space Cost of Capitol $5,000,000. Over 30 varieties of marble and stone were used in its...
Postcards, Louisiana State Capitol (Baton Rouge, La.)
Air view of the Louisiana State Capitol and grounds. Baton Rouge, La. The 34 story Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest building in the south with a height of 450 feet. Construction of the building was begun in 1931 on the site of the Old...
St. Joseph's Cathedral, northeast corner of Main Street and Fourth, Baton Rouge, La. Construction was completed in 1856 without the steeple on land donated by Antonio Gras and Genevieve Dulat. Gift of Ed Reed. Photograph by Ewing, Inc. April 6, 1925
First Presbyterian Church, 701 North Boulevard, Baton Rouge, La. Construction was completed in 1926 for an approximate cost of $300,000. Built in the Gothic style with red brick and white sandstone trim. Gift of Ed Reed. Photograph by Ewing, Inc....
The Yazoo and Mississippi River Valley Rail Road Company Passenger Station as seen from the grounds of the Old State Capitol looking west. $250,000 was expended by the Illinois Central Railway Company in construction of this building and new...
Aerial view of construction of the Horace J. Wilkinson Bridge. Cantilever bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge. View of Intracostal waterway in the foreground. Opened April 10, 1968.
Portico at Belle Helene. Construction on the house began in 1840, and completed by 1842 Duncan F. Kenner. In March 1889, the estate sold to George B. Reuss, an Ascension Parish planter who renamed the plantation to "Belle Helene" from Ashland for...
Baton Rouge, La. Government Street at Acadian Thruway. Construction, possibly for sewers Looking west. Westmoreland Shopping center, Ogden Park Shopping Center. October, 1959. Color slide.