Contractors
This section of the website contains photographs and information on the contractors who worked on construction of the Capitol:
A list of all the contractors on the Capitol construction,
A newspaper clipping that lists all the bids for the Capitol superstructure, dated 1897,
Information on several specific contractors:
- Butler Brothers Construction company, the general contractor, and a separate section that shows Butler Family photographs and a memoir by the youngest partner of the firm, Emmett Butler
- George J. Grant Construction Company which undertook the excavation and built the foundation.
- Lauer Brothers & Miller of Saint Paul who constructed the basement.