Wyoming State Capitol Building and Grounds National Historic Landmark Nomination (Updated Documentation)
Warzel E and Unger A. 2024. Wyoming State Capitol Building and Grounds National Historic Landmark Nomination (Updated Documentation). 73001935_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This document is updated National Historic Landmark (NHL) documentation for the Wyoming State Capitol Building and Grounds in Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming. The updated NHL documentation for the Wyoming State Capitol Building and Grounds documents its national significance under NHL Criteria 1 and 3 for its direct association with the first, sustained instance in which a state established women’s right to vote. State constitutional delegates debated and voted upon this provision in Wyoming’s constitution in the Capitol’s Territorial House Chamber/Supreme Court Room in 1889. Under Criterion 1, the property is the site at which the territorial electorate continued the full voting rights provided to women as established in 1869 by the Territorial Legislature and where, in 1890, Wyoming became the forty-fourth state and the first to guarantee women’s suffrage. Under Criterion 3, this event and the acceptance of Wyoming into the Union in 1890 demonstrate the beginnings of what ultimately became a lengthy effort to achieve success in the women’s suffrage movement on a state-by-state basis, following on the heels of failed attempts in the 1860s to provide for women’s suffrage nationally through amendment to the US Constitution.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Warzel, Erika; Unger, Amy
- Date of Issue
- 2024-09-02
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- Cheyenne, National Historic Landmark, Suffrage, Women's History, Wyoming