Baton Rouge
— — the river bend the red post named.
Not only on a wall.
“The capital of Louisiana, set on the first true bluff above the Mississippi as the river runs south. The Louisiana State Capitol, Huey Long's 1932 tower, rises 450 feet above the bend, still the tallest state capitol in the country. The river itself is what the city was built to watch.
Baton Rouge, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana, with about 225,000 residents in the city and 870,000 in the metropolitan area. It sits on the east bank of the Mississippi on the first true bluff above the river as it runs south, roughly 130 kilometres upstream of New Orleans. The name traces to 1699, when French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville recorded a red cypress pole, baton rouge, marking the boundary between two indigenous hunting grounds. The deep-water port here is the upriver anchor of the busiest port complex in the Western Hemisphere.
The Louisiana State Capitol, completed in 1932 under Governor Huey P. Long, rises 137 metres (450 feet) over the river bluff, still the tallest state capitol in the United States. Designed by Weiss, Dreyfous, and Seiferth in an Art Deco idiom, it is faced in Alabama limestone and finished inside with marble from twenty-two countries. Long was assassinated in the building on 8 September 1935; his statue stands on the front lawn above his grave. The Old State Capitol, three blocks south, is a neo-Gothic castle in painted cast iron, completed in 1852.
The Mississippi River at Baton Rouge is roughly 600 metres wide and 15 metres deep, the last point upriver where ocean-going ships can dock, which fixed the city's role as a deep-water port. The Horace Wilkinson Bridge, the downstream crossing, carries Interstate 10 over the river at a clearance of 53 metres. Riverboat traffic still moves at all hours; the levees along Front Street were rebuilt and raised after the 2011 flood. From the Capitol observation deck on the 27th floor, the river curves out of sight in both directions.