Condemnation litigation files for Capitol expansion project, 1969-1974.

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Condemnation litigation files for Capitol expansion project, 1969-1974.

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Pleadings, correspondence, abstracts, appraisals, transcripts, and other legal and miscellaneous documents regarding property condemned by the state for acquisition in the 1971-1972 Capitol complex expansion project. They focus on appraisal reports, including photographs and maps, of property acquired around the Rice Street-University Avenue intersection in St. Paul.

2.8 cu. ft. (3 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Minnesota State Capitol (Saint Paul, Minn. : 1905- ).

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These cases had their genesis in a bill of complaint filed with the United States Supreme Court by the state of Wisconsin in 1922, seeking an injunction to restrain the state of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from diverting water from Lake Michigan through the Chicago River into the Des Plaines River and ultimately the Mississippi. This linkage, completed in 1900, not only facilitated navigation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River waterways system, but a...