The average Michigan citizen visits the Capitol on a school field trip when he or she is about ten years old. As a result, most of us have a frozen image of the Capitol in our mind, as it was at that one moment, which we incorrectly assume to be “the way it always was” and still is. In truth, Michigan’s present Capitol has evolved continuously since the day that its architect, E.E. Myers, first put pen to linen in 1871. Travel through nearly 150 years of Capitol history in one evening—and see the Capitol building as it was, has been, and is today.