Virginia State Capitol

Richmond, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Phone: +1 804-698-1788

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The Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, designed by Thomas Jefferson and Charles-Louis Clérisseau and completed in 1788, is a Palladian structure conceived in France and modeled after the Maison Carrée in Nîmes. It houses the Virginia General Assembly, the oldest elected legislative body in North America, established as the House of Burgesses in 1619. The eighth statehouse built for Virginia, it replaced earlier capitols lost to fires during the colonial period. The building served as the capitol of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865, and two wings were added in the early twentieth century. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960, it stands as both a masterwork of neoclassical architecture and a repository of American legislative history.

Architect

Charles-Louis Clérisseau Thomas Jefferson

Movement

Palladian architecture

Built: 1785
Type: capitol building
Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place, Virginia Historic Landmark
Place: Richmond, United States

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