Heritage, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1988 Page: 17
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The Statehouse that cost Texans
The Statehouse that cost Texans
three million acres of prime real estate!
The Capitol Story
STATEHOUSE IN TEXAS
By Mike Fowler and Jack Maguire
With Noel Grisham and Maria Johnson
More than a century ago - February 1, 1882 - the State of Texas began building a capitol building that still
isn't finished. Taxpayers do not legally own the 25.96 acres of prime Austin real estate on which it rests. They do,
however, own the big, red granite building with an estimated eighteen acres of floor space that makes it the largest
headquarters of any state government in the Union. It is, by design, seven feet taller than the nation's Capitol.
The magnificent Texas State Capitol was conceived in 1880 when visionary Texans decided to build a capitol
that would be the envy of the nation. The state had no money, but it had more than 40 million acres of public land.
The people decided to trade more than three million acres of that asset for a grandiose statehouse.
The Capitol Story is the story of how they did it. But it is more than the chronicle of a building. It is the narrative
of a people who, throughout their history, have always done things their way - and with pride.
The ONLY MAJOR
WORK on Texas'
100-Year-Old
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