Massachusetts State House
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 | Massachusetts State House |
| Designer | Charles Bulfinch |
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date | 1795 to 1797 |
| Building Type | state house, government center, state capitol |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Georgian Neoclassical |
| Street Address | On Beacon St at Bowdoin St |
| Notes | An archetype for domed state houses across the United States. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Massachusetts_State_House.html |
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"Its main front is a lightened or Adamized version of the center of the south front of ">Somerset House</a>, which in a letter to the legislative committee Bulfinch referred to as "a building celebrated all over Europe," while its largest interior, the Representatives Hall, follows in all essentials the Great Room in Wyatt's Pantheon, a fact not mentioned by Bulfinch to the committee... The Massachusetts State House was much admired from the first, and the fact that a central dome became an almost universal feature of American state houses is due at least as mcuh to its example as to that of the <a /buildings/United_States_Capitol.html national capitol.
— Marcus Whiffen and Frederick Koeper, American Architecture, 1860-1976, p109-110.
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Marcus Whiffen and Frederick Koeper. American Architecture, 1860-1976. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. exterior photo, f95, p111, interior photo, f96, p111. — An excellent survey of American architecture. Available at Amazon.com
