The Old State Capitol

Louisiana · USA · Haunted site

Pierre is said to have been elected and then to have died of a heart attack in his forties, worked up over a political fight, before he could take his.

The figure reported in the Old State Capitol at Baton Rouge is known as Pierre.

He is understood to have been a senator or congressman who died of a heart attack in his mid to late forties, brought on by a political issue he felt strongly about, before he could begin serving his term.

He keeps to the upstairs of the building.

Whether any such man existed is not established, and Louisiana's legislative records would settle it.

The building itself is extraordinary and worth the visit regardless. It is a gothic revival castle on a bluff above the Mississippi, built in the 1840s, which Mark Twain detested and said should be blown up. It burned during the Civil War, was rebuilt, and has a spiral staircase under a stained glass dome that is one of the finest interiors in the south.

It is a museum of Louisiana political history and is open to visitors.

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Wo befindet sich The Old State Capitol?

The Old State Capitol liegt in Louisiana, USA.

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