MYSTERY: Made of glass and wood

Light pierces through this architecturally-important, glass-roofed structure, but where is it?  Third correct guess wins a pair of ticket vouchers to a game with the winning Charleston RiverDogs.  Send your best guess to:  editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live. (Photo by Avery Brack.)

In the most recent issue, we showed a government building that stumped some guessers, but not others.  Peter Lucash of West Ashley wins a pair of tickets.  A pat on the back to Chris Books of Mount Pleasant and George Graf of Palmyra, Va., both of whom knew it was the Arkansas state capitol in Little Rock, Ark  In fact, Graf added:

“Located on the grounds are several monuments including monuments to veterans, police, Confederate soldiers, Confederate women, a Confederate war prisoners marker and a civil-rights memorial to the Little Rock Nine.  The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas.

“The Capitol was built on the site of the state penitentiary and prisoners helped construct the building. They lived in a dormitory that was left on the Capitol grounds while construction was taking place.

“It’s not the kind of thing you’ll notice unless somebody points it out to you, but the foundation of the State Capitol is tilted. The original plan was to have the building face squarely down 5th Street so that a visitor approaching on Capitol Avenue would be impressed by the architectural majesty of the building. But as sometimes happens with public projects things go awry from the very beginning and the foundation was laid about nine degrees off square.”

Thanks, George!

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