State Capitol Construction
This file appears in: Casiville Bullard
African American bricklayers and stonemasons aided in the construction of the state capitol building.
Date: Approximately 1900
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Casiville Bullard
Casiville Bullard
Many skilled black artisans were recruited to Saint Paul to work on buildings going up in the early 1900s. Many of them arrived from Georgia with the marble used in those buildings. Casiville Bullard, a master stonemason, helped build such Saint…