Last Stop on I-94 Heading East
We’re starting the countdown on visiting our last 10 State Capitol Buildings! When we briefly visited Bismarck in 2014, we only got to a museum. First stop this time…
Touring 1 new State Capitol:
- North Dakota State Capitol in Bismarck (#41), where we got a tour, and learned that the choice of a skyscraper design was very deliberate, when they rebuilt the capitol after the original one burned down in 1930. Built in 1933, during the height of the depression, the skyscraper gave them more working space, than spending money on a fancy dome.
Other Bismarck, North Dakota visits, over 3 days
- North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum, across the street from the capitol, which we first visited briefly in 2014 and were looking forward to revisiting. It’s a great museum. This time we spent 2 afternoons.
- Former Governors’ Mansion State Historic Site, just another few blocks away, we got a tour of the Mansion, and learned a bit about the early governors of the state.
- Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park, where we visited the reconstructed Commissary, Enlisted Barracks, and got a great tour of the “Custer House“. It is otherwise know as the Commanding Officer’s House, but is set up to represent its first occupants, Libby and General Custer, who lived there the last 2 1/2 years before the Battle of Little Big Horn.
- Lewis & Clark Riverboat Cruise, for an hour on the Missouri River. It looked like a “lazy river”, but it only took us 10 minutes to come back downstream, what took us 50 minutes to go upstream!
Bison made of Rebar (VERY COOL) outside the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum 
Mark with T-Rex at North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum 
Mark with Triceratops at North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum 
Bison at the Early Peoples exhibit at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum 
Former Governors’ Mansion State Historic Site 
Custer House 
Only part of the Custer House that is original…the bricks in the basement 
Mark with the CCC Statue at Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park. They did the first archeology of the site 
Lewis & Clark Riverboat 
Northern Pacific Rail Bridge, completed in 1883, first bridge accross the Missouri in the Bismarck/Mandan area
Heading on south, to Pierre, South Dakota
For more pictures (later), see Adventure Album: X-Country East
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