The Louisiana State Capitol is a 450ft (137m) tall building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Constructed between 1930 and 1932, the building is one of few of its kind: a modern skyscraper serving as a state's official seat of government. The tower was built under the governorship of Huey Long, the state's firebrand New Deal era leader. To replace an aging and increasingly cramped old capitol building, Long secured lavish funding to raise a new tower befitting his visions of grandeur. The monumental building was designed by Leon C. Weiss in the Art Deco style, incorporating many symbols of Louisiana's history and geography such as pelicans and seashells into its elaborate ornamentation. In 1935, Huey Long, now a US Senator, was assassinated in the halls of his capitol building. To this day, lingering bullets in the building's marble columns and a memorial grave on the capitol lawn commemorate the larger-than-life figure behind this unique piece of America's architectural history.