Jim McKee (Dec 17) Presentation on Nebr State Capital HIstory- Humanities Nebraska

Come to the Custer County Museum, Dec 17, 2017 at 1:30pm, to take in the History of the Nebraska State Capitol.

This will be a slide-illustrated program tells the story of Nebraska’s two territorial capitol buildings in Omaha and three state capitols in Lincoln.

Nebraska’s present capitol, built between 1922 and 1932, is discussed in detail from the design contest ultimately won by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, through its being named one of the ten most beautiful buildings in the world, one of the ten best built buildings in the world to one of the 50 most memorable works of architecture in the world.