Colorado State Capitol Virtual Tour
The Colorado Board of Capitol Managers
For a period of twenty-five years a group of enterprising men were invested with the
responsibility to make the State's dream of a capitol building into a reality. The Board
of Capitol Managers had to sort through stacks of architectural designs, deal with
countless contractors, investigate all types of building materials, and continuously
juggle a myriad of political interest groups. Their decisions were the ones that in the
end shaped the capitol into the impressive monument that it is today. Their offices, said
one newspaper, "resemble the salesroom of a large manufacturing establishment.The
managers won't allow anything slipshod in the Capitol." For all their hard work they
were paid $2,500 annually, and after 1897 their services were purely voluntary. When the
Board of Capitol Managers' books were finally closed there was no debt, no controversy, no
improprieties, just a building that is "the pride of our people."
Herman Lueders |
1883 - 1888
John Routt Alfred Butters
Dennis Sullivan E.S. Nettleton
George Kassler W.W. Webster
George Clark - Secretary
1888 - 1890
John Routt Alfred Butters
Dennis Sullivan E.S. Nettleton
George Kassler Michael Spangler
Donald W. Campbell - Secretary
1890 - 1898
John Routt Otto Mears
Benjamin Crowell Charles Hughes Jr.
Donald W. Campbell - Secretary
1898 - 1900
Job A. Cooper Otto Mears
George Tritch Charles Hughes Jr.
Herman Lueders - Secretary
1900 - 1904
George Baxter Otto Mears
Joseph Thatcher Charles Hughes Jr.
Herman Lueders - Secretary
1904 - 1910
Harper Orahood Otto Mears
Joseph Thatcher Charles Hughes Jr.
Herman Lueders - Secretary
1910 - 1917
Harper Orahood Otto Mears
James Williams Charles Hughes Jr.
William Burchinell - Secretary
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John L. Routt
Otto Mears
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