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West Virginia Legislature

2nd Session of the 86th Legislature

Bibliography

Articles

  • “West Virginia’s Capitol Buildings”, Kyle McCormick, former director of the Department of Archives and History, printed by Mathews Printing and Lithographing Company.
  • “…digest of the Capitol’s History”, W. S. Johnson, former state treasurer, (handout) courtesy of the Jarrett Printing Company.
  • “West Virginia’s Magnificent State Capitol”, Boyd Stutler, from the West Virginia Review, volume IX (July 1932).

News Release

  • “…reasoning for Capitol Building Commission’s choice of construction sites”, Kyle McCormick, from the archives search room, Cultural Center.

Newspapers

  • “New Capitol Section”, Charleston Daily Mail, June 19, 1932.
  • “Four State Departments Enter New Quarters”, Charleston Daily Mail, January 15,1928.
  • Various other articles from Charleston newspapers the Gazette and the Daily Mail, years 1921-1932.

Correspondence

  • Letters, communications and memorandums of the Capitol Building Commission, from the archives search room, Cultural Center, 1930-1932.
  • Letter and descriptive papers regarding the Capitol to Walter E. Clark, former editor of the Daily Mail, from Cass Gilbert; April 8,1932 and May of 1932; courtesy of George Singleton, clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals, state of West Virginia, and Bob Mellace of Charleston.

Books

  • Public Addresses and Papers of Governors Cornwell, Morgan, Gore and Conley, from the archives search room, Cultural Center.
  • West Virginia Governors, 1863-1980, by John G. Morgan, second edition, published by Charleston Newspapers, 1980.
  • Charleston and the Kanawha Valley, by Otis K. Rice, sponsored by the West Virginia Historical Society, first edition, Windsor Publications, Inc., 1981.

Document

  • Nomination form, the National Register of Historic Places, West Virginia Capitol Complex, prepared by James E. Harding, Research Analyst for the West Virginia Antiquities Commission, April 11,1974.

Reference

  • The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Volume XXVI, James T. White & Company, 1937, pp. 20-21 .

Photographic Credits

  • Front cover – David E. Fattaleh, Division of Tourism.
  • Back cover – Steve Shaluta, Jr., Division of Tourism.
  • Inside front cover – Rick Lee, Division of Culture and History.
  • Title page- Mike Keller, Division of Culture and History.
  • Early Capitols, First Governor’s Mansion, Capitol Annex and pasteboard Capitol, Courtesy of the State Archives, Division of Culture and History.
  • Construction documentation, 1924-1925 Leonard Gates, courtesy of the State Archives, Division of Culture and History.
  • Construction documentation, 1926-1932 Bollinger Studios, courtesy of the State Archives, Division of Culture and History.
  • Recent exterior work – Mike Keller, Division of Culture and History.
  • Recent interior work Rick Lee, Division of Culture and History; David E. Fattaleh, Division of Tourism.