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Title
Wide view of original State Office Building, Lansing
Creator
James P. Edmonds

Institution
Capital Area District Library

Subject
State capitol (Lansing, MI)

Subject
State governments

Subject
NULL

Item Number
JQ01p016

Relation
NULL

Type
image

Format
tiff

Description
Photograph of original state office building, Lansing. Built 1853 at a cost of $15,500. Located in the center of the block later occupied by the 1879 state capitol. Razed in 1870, the materials were used to build the Butler block on the northwest corner of Kalamazoo and Washington Avenues.

Wide view of original State Office Building, Lansing

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