Alabama's first statehouse stood on this lot, but no drawing by a person who actually saw it has been found. It was built in 1819 and destroyed in 1833, before the invention of photography. There are many drawings of the statehouse, but all are pure conjecture.
Compare these drawings to instructions given to the builders of the capitol in 1819. Then you decide which is best.
The building to be two story, fifty-eight feet long, and forty-three feet wide; each
story to be twelve feet in the clear. The interior to be divided above and below stairs by a passage fourteen feet wide, ...Two chimnies and eight windows are to be provided at each end and twelve windows on each front of the building; to be commenced two feet below the surface of the earth, and to be two brick and a half thick to the first floor (which must be three feet above the surface of the earth), and from thence two brick. ...The shingles are to be of cypress or heart pine.
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