Completed in 1851 in the Greek Revival style with evident Beaux-Arts influences, Alabama State Capitol is located in downtown Montgomery on what was once known as Goat Hill.
It is a National Historic Landmark which contains a museum about Alabama State politics and history, the seat of the state governor and other officers of the executive branch.
The Capitol building was the seat of the Confederacy government in 1861after the Confederacy was born in the Senate chamber in this building.
The 1965 Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March finished in front of the building. A seven-starred version of the Confederate flag Stars and Bars flew over the Capitol building for 30 years, until a state court decision barred it in 1993.
The grounds around the Capitol were landscaped by famous landscape artist Frederick Law Olmsted in 1889, and many of the trees he planted still stand.
600 Dexter Ave, Montgomery, AL 36130, 334-242-7100