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Put together a board of commissioners in the 1890s and they chose an architect, cass gilbert, to build this third and present day State Capitol. The Building Construction took place and they had the groundbreaking in 1896 and opened to the public in 1905, kind of the first week of january of 1905. It was open for that legislative session. And if you were to walk into the building at that time, this was really a stateoftheart building. It had its own electrical power plant built next door so it was wired with electricity and you had working elevators and you had all the convenience of indoor plumbing as well. So this was really a spectacular public building for the people of minnesota. Cass gilbert was born in zanesville, ohio but as a youngster moved out with his family to st. Paul. He basically claimed st. Paul as his home and in 1895 was selected as the architect for this State Capitol building. And theres a lot of kind of interesting stories behind him. He was a qualified architect
Recommended that he put in a hyped organ. It was a highend amenity that the wealthy were putting in his home in the east coast. This is the only room that was twostory high. For just under 5,000. It has been lately restored, it still works great we bring in an organ player on saturdays and they do five minute demonstrations. When they play this thing, it is pretty amazing. There are 1006 pipes in the gallery overhead. It is a massive instrument for the private home. They ended up using it all the time. It was not in the original plans, but this family loves music. We know this because mrs. Hill had season tickets to the metropolitan opera, they went to theater all the time, and they did so much entertaining here i think it was just a great thing to have when company was over. They could have live music. They had a couple of steinway pianos, but this is not just a little parlor pump organ, this is a huge impressive thing that can be heard practically all over the building. This was a lo