Cass Gilbert vs. Clarence Johnston

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Cass Gilbert

From 1884-1892 Gilbert designed buildings such as hospitals, depots, and other buildings for the Northern Pacific railway as well as designs for houses, warehouses, retail stores, churches, and office buildings. Many of Gilbert's imaginative designs interpreted details from European buildings and used popular styles from the era. Some styles he incorporated were Romanesque, American Colonial shingle style, Gothic Revival, and Beaux-Arts idiom from Paris.  In 1894, Cass Gilbert won the competition to design the Minnesota State Capital. He used Beaux-Arts fusion of High Renaissance Art and Baroque architecture and the dome represented Saint Peters Basilica in Rome. 

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Clarence Johnston

Clarence Johnston is the most abundant architect in Minnesota. He is most known for his mansions in St. Paul but he also designed dozens of academic buildings, churches, prisons, and hospitals. In his long tenure as state architect and in commissions for institutional clients, he designed for multitudes. Johnston’s works have touched the full spectrum of Minnesotans and continue to do so in the twenty-first century. 

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