Vermont State House
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Vermont State House
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The State House in 2012
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| Location | Montpelier, Vermont |
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| Coordinates | 44°15′44″N 72°34′51″W / 44.26222°N 72.58083°WCoordinates: 44°15′44″N 72°34′51″W / 44.26222°N 72.58083°W |
| Built | 1833 |
| Architect | Ammi Burnham Young Thomas Silloway |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 70000739 |
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| Added to NRHP | December 30, 1970 |
| Designated NHL | December 30, 1970 |
The Vermont State House, located in Montpelier, is the state capitol of Vermont, in the United States. It is the seat of the Vermont General Assembly. The current Greek Revival structure is the third building on the same site to be used as the State House. Designed by Thomas Silloway in 1857–1858, it was occupied in 1859.
A careful restoration of the Vermont State House began in the early 1980s led by curator David Schütz and the Friends of the Vermont State House, a citizens' advisory committee. The general style of the building is Neoclassical and Greek Revival and is furnished in American Empire, Renaissance Revival, and Rococo Revival styles. Some rooms have been restored to represent latter-19th-century styles including the "Aesthetic Movement" style.
The Vermont State House is located on State Street on the western edge of downtown Montpelier, a block north of the Winooski River. Set against a wooded hillside (which was open pasture land earlier during much of its history), the building and its distinctive gold leaf dome are easily visible while approaching Montpelier, the smallest city to serve as capital of a U.S. state.
The current structure was designed by architect Thomas Silloway (1828–1910) amplifying the design of an earlier structure designed by Ammi B. Young, (1798–1874) later supervising architect of the U.S. Treasury. The first State House built in 1808 by Sylvanus Baldwin was replaced by the current Vermont Supreme Court Building completed in 1918.
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