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Unit 6: Set 6. The North Dakota Capitol: Fire and Re-building - The Cornerstones - Photos

Introduction | The Fire | New Capitol | The Strike | Cornerstones | Activity

Cornerstones | Telegram | Cornerstone Photos

A6853-1. Vice President Charles Curtis
Vice President Charles Curtis places mortar under the
cornerstone on October 8, 1932.
C0442-2. Selected cornerstone for the North Dakota capitol building.
Cornerstone, 1933

Stone mason Hynek Rybnicek, architect Joseph Bell DeRemer, capitol commissioner Ernst Warner, and capitol groundsman Dobson, spent a day east of St. Anthony in rural Morton County looking for the perfect stone from which Rybnicek would carve the 1933 cornerstone. They selected the stone upon which they stand.

30275 Box 1 Book 8 Memo 7-29-1933-28. Workmen set the new cornerstone
Workmen set the new cornerstone
in place before the dedication ceremony.
0012-116.  Governor William Langer applies mortar to the new cornerstone
Governor William Langer applies
mortar to the new cornerstone
September 5, 1933.