Background
Elijah E. Myers was born in 1832 in Springfield, Illinois, United States.
Elijah E. Myers was born in 1832 in Springfield, Illinois, United States.
Mr. Myers settled in Detroit in 1880, and in the following years won several competitions for public buildings, including three State Capitols. The first was at Austin, Texas, designed in the Classic style, and built between 1883 and 1887 to replace the first capital destroyed by fire in 1881. About the same time he won the competition for the Capitol at Lansing, Mich., and later the Colorado State Capitol at Denver, completed in 1896.