Talk:Florida State Capitol

Phallic appearance

Is the popular opinion that it looks like a phallus worthy of mention? —Keenan Pepper 23:40, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

The fact that there is no mention of the phallic appearance of the capitol building is ridiculous. It's OBVIOUS to anyone who visits Tallahassee. ARTISElizabeth24 (talk) 22:42, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

I was thinking the same thing when I found this page, I'm sure it deserves a little blurb somewhere.

Well I took the lead, I even documented it with a source from the St. Pete Times, and while I hope it's amusing, I kept it serious. Ghengiscohen 03:06, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

It it also worth mentioning that urban legends have surfaced over the phallic nature of the Capitol. The one I've heard was told to me by different people. However, each person who told me also attended Florida State University. This leads me to believe the urban legend may have started at that school. The urban legend goes: The design for the Capitol was selected in a contest by the State Legislature. A person, as a joke, submitted the phallic design and won. Some variations put emphasis on the fact that this person submitting the design was homosexual. Obviously, the research done for this article mentions nothing of a contest, rather that two architectural firms designed it. So unless someone researches and finds otherwise, I'm calling this an urban legend. But it would be interesting if someone could turn up any research that might explain how this urban legend got started. I am also curious if other urban legends exist about the Capitol. Subwayatrain (talk) 22:31, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, every picture chose for the article appears too have been selected for having angles that completely obscure the genitalian design. If someone did not know, they would have no idea why it is considered phallic. But unlike most ostensibly phallic buildings, this one includes testicles. We need a better picture. Unschool 00:54, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Sources

Why are there no sources on this page? Footnotes?Ghengiscohen 04:40, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

1842 old capitol

I added Image:Tallahassee old capitol 1842.png near the "old capitol" section. All I know is in the image description, which is from a 1945 Library of Congress pamphlet which included this image. But this building does not resemble well the current "Old Capitol" building. "THE OLD STATE CAPITOL AT TALLAHASSEE" probably is the original caption, which implies that in 1842 the pictured building was called the "Old Capitol" thus there was a new one by 1842. I suspect the museum in the "Old Capitol" building might have more information about all the capitol buildings. (SEWilco 07:34, 25 November 2006 (UTC))

How Tall?

Really, how tall is the new Florida State Capitol Building? A state website lists it has being exactly 300 feet tall. Another number I've seen says that the observation deck floor/top floor (floor 22) is 307 feet above the plaza level, and then I see a number of 322 feet for it, too. Can someone contact the capitol building to find this out for sure? I may shoot them and email to try and figure this out. --Criticalthinker (talk) 02:22, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

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Lead image/Old Capitol

I completely understand the desire to emphasise the Old Capitol at the expense of the current one. But as the article is about the current capitol building, it seems inappropriate to have it obscured by its predecessor. At the very least the lead image should be of just the newer, uglier capitol building. 107.3.44.127 (talk) 17:31, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

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Phallic question again

I don't know what use to make of this information, but in a contest no earlier than 2003 by Cabinet Magazine for the most phallic building in the world, the winner was the water tower in Ypsilanti, Michigan (https://web.archive.org/web/20031203214312/http://www.cabinetmagazine.org:80/phallic/winner.php).

However, the same contest reported that 237 people, presumably Floridians, sent in pictures of the Florida Capitol - "by far the largest response to any building". (https://web.archive.org/web/20031222044258/http://www.cabinetmagazine.org:80/phallic/mostvotes.php)

Other nominees: http://cabinetmagazine.org/events/phallic/nominees.php

I based the date of the contest on what it says on the page and the link to this https://web.archive.org/web/20031008223611/http://slate.msn.com:80/id/2085471/entry/2085747/

If I put it in the article, I'm pretty sure someone will take it out immediately. deisenbe (talk) 19:12, 19 May 2018 (UTC)