Educational Web Sites

“Shaping the Capitol Complex,” an online exhibit by West Virginia Archives and History at: http://www.wvculture.org/museum/exhibitsonline.html

“State of Convenience: The Creation of West Virginia,” an online exhibit by Archives and History at: http://www.wvculture.org/museum/exhibitsonline.html

History of the West Virginia Capitol that is available on the West Virginia Legislature’s Web site at: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Educational/Capitol_History/cap.cfm

Biographical information and photographs related to Capitol architect Cass Gilbert from the archives of the Cass Gilbert Society at:
http://www.cassgilbertsociety.org

West Virginia Regional and History Collection at West Virginia University:
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/wvcollection/

Main Web site for Archives and History at the West Virginia Division of Culture and History: http://www.wvculture.org/history/archivesindex.aspx

Kanawha County Public Library has reference materials such as books and pictures. Some of the reference materials cannot be checked out, but they may be viewed at the library:
http://kanawha.lib.wv.us/

Link to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Web site. This page talks about the history of the building and its architect Cass Gilbert, the designer of the present day West Virginia Capitol:
http://www.uschamber.com/about/history/headquarters.htm

Minnesota Historical Society Web site:
http://www.mnhs.org/collections/

U.S. Supreme Court Web site:
http://search.access.gpo.gov/supreme-court/SearchRight.asp?ct=Supreme-Court&q1=cass+gilbert&x=18&y=14

The Library of Congress was a source for the documentary. Its main Web site is:
http://www.loc.gov/index.html To search its digital collection, go to: http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.htmlWest Virginia

The kids’ activity book:
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Educational/Kids_Page/kids.html

The Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen (S&D) was established in 1939 to perpetuate the memory of Pioneer Rivermen and for the preservation of river history:
http://www.s-and-d.org/

Government Web Sites
West Virginia Division of Culture and History: http://www.wvculture.org/

West Virginia state government:
http://www.wv.gov/

West Virginia Legislature:
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/

West Virginia Legislature’s Office of Reference & Information that handles information on all facets of the legislative process: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Joint/Pubinfo/legisinfo.cfm

Printed Material

“Buildings of West Virginia,” by S. Allen Chambers Jr., New York: Oxford University Press, 2004

“Capitols of West Virginia: A Pictorial History,” by Stan Cohen and Richard Andre, Charleston: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1989

“Cass Gilbert, Life and Work — Architect of the Public Domain,” edited by Barbara S. Christen and Steve Flanders, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001

“Inventing the Skyline: The Architecture of Cass Gilbert,” edited by Margaret Heilbrun, New York: Columbia University Press, 2000

“Charleston and the Kanawha Valley,” by Otis K. Rice, Woodland Hills, Calif.: The Windsor Press, 1981

“Wheeling: An Illustrated History,’ by Doug Fetherling, Woodland Hills, Calif., The Windsor Pres, 1983

“The West Virginia Capitol: A Commemorative History,” researched and written by Robert A. Damron, published by the West Virginia Legislature, 1982

“History of Kanawha County,” written by George W. Atkinson in 1876, reprinted in 1994 for the West Virginia Genealogical Society Inc., printed in the U.S.A. by Don Mills Inc. of Waynesville, N.C.