In the 1930's, a Louisiana skyscraper reflected the style of America's tallest buildings. The State Capitol opened in 1932, a year after the Empire State Building. It was the vision of Governor ...

Elise Grenier misses nothing, even when it's 30 feet high in the Louisiana State Capitol's Memorial Hall. The flaking, cracking and especially the history doesn't escape her.

The Louisiana State Capitol will likely resembles a prison or a demolition site for months while crews dig up parts of parking lots, ... (some say it’s a pencil) still lodged in the ceiling.

BATON ROUGE — Like the 163-story Burj Khalifa towering over Dubai or the Empire State Building in New York City, the Louisiana's Capitol is an architectural jewels with a history and daily life ...

The State Capitol lost its claim to being Louisiana’s tallest building nearly a half-century ago, but at 27 floors up, you still get a stunning view of Baton Rouge and the Mississippi River.

Art conservator Elise Grenier, who is restoring the murals on Jan. 12, 2018, top, along the ceiling in the main entry hall of the State Capitol works from atop tall scaffolding to reach the 30 ...

Long viewed the 34-story, 450-foot-tall skyscraper — visible for many miles from the surrounding bayous — as a symbol of Louisiana pride. It’s still the tallest state capitol in the nation.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La – At the Louisiana ...