Commission Created to Oversee Idaho Capitol Construction [otd 03/03]

On March 3, 1905 Governor Frank Gooding signed an Act to create a "Capitol Building Board." For some years prior to this, state officers and citizens had begun to find the old Territorial capitol building inadequate to the needs of a new and growing state.

Old Territorial/State capitol building, ca 1898.
Illustrated History of the State of Idaho.Before 1884, the Territorial legislature apparently met in various hotels where they could find enough rooms, and Territorial offices were at scattere...