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where laws are born, budgets die, and lobbyists quietly run the daycare.
means The building where a U.S. state's legislature meets to make laws and conduct government business; a state capitol.
from A transparent compound of 'state' and 'house' — English at its most literal. 'State' descends from Latin 'status' (a standing, a condition), which by the 1500s came to mean a political body or commonwealth; 'house' is plain Old English 'hus,' a dwelling, long stretched to mean any building where official business is done (think 'courthouse,' 'warehouse'). 'Statehouse' as the seat of a colonial or state government took root in early America, where the most famous example — Philadelphia's Pennsylvania State House — is better known today as Independence Hall.
- Domed icons
- Most copy DC's Capitol, itself copying ancient Rome
- Cat staffer
- Some statehouses kept mousers on the payroll
- Filibuster fuel
- One legislator once read a phone book to stall
- Hidden tunnels
- Many connect to offices for weather and protests
- Gold domes
- Several are coated in real, gleaming gold leaf
massachusetts state house — gold-domed capitol in boston, built 1798, seat of massachusetts legislature
south carolina state house — columned neoclassical building in columbia, completed 1855, still under restoration from civil war damage
georgia state capitol — gold-domed building in atlanta, completed 1889, features italian renaissance architecture