Capitol Boiler Works featured in Virginia Construction Elite

Winter 2024 - Volume 20 No. 1

The year was 1936, and the United States was in the middle of the Great Depression. The President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, won re-election to a second term; the Hoover Dam opened; Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in the Summer Olympics in Germany; Burt Reynolds, Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain, Buddy Holly, Robert Redford, and Mary Tyler Moore were born, and Walter C. Holman established Capitol Boiler Works…