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Since that time, battle flags from other wars have been added. In 1815, architect and builder Stuart James Park submitted a proposal to build a granite statehouse for $32,000. The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce will welcome the public to the New Hampshire State House on Saturday, September 25, 2022 for complimentary guided tours.

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In 1816, local Quakers sold the lot where their meetinghouse was to the state of New Hampshire,[1][2][3] and the building was built between 1816 and 1819 by architect Stuart Park. The measure is separate and not part of a package of three supplemental funding bills containing aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan as well as another so-called sidecar bill dealing with TikTok. The Senate will be able to clear the foreign aid package and ignore the border security bill that closely resembles another House-passed border bill the Senate has not acted on. The ACLU of New Hampshire said they were "glad" that the committee voted to recommend the bill to interim study.

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Nothing was done, however, until the problem became acute in one of the Civil War years, 1863, through the offer of the city of Manchester of a sizeable sum to build a new capitol and locate it there. This amount was stated to be no less than half a million dollars. The first discussions regarding the erection of a suitable state capitol building in New Hampshire took place in the year 1814.

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There’s even a bench for leisurely viewing out the big windows. It’s pretty quiet up here these days, but Jasper says it wasn’t always this way. There’s a door on the third floor of the New Hampshire State House; Room 320. On an overcast day in April, Speaker of the House Shawn Jasper and his Chief of Staff, Terry Pfaff, unlocked the door. On Jan. 5, 1776, six months before the people of the United States claimed self-government, the people of New Hampshire gave this country its first state constitution.

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These are the oldest continuously used legislative chambers in America! New Hampshire constructed this state house in 1819 using local NH granite. We have a lot of granite in New Hampshire, so that seems a reasonable choice to me.

Danielson boarded up the open end of the fragment with second-hand timbers and boards and had the shell removed and remodeled into a Greek Revival-style dwelling that long stood at 47 Court Street. 1834 The Portsmouth town meeting resolved that the state house "ought to be removed" from Market Square. 1789 The state house was illuminated to celebrate New Hampshire's ratification of the United States Constitution.

The house of representatives voted to appropriate 2,000 pounds to build the state house, but voted that the materials be changed from brick to wood and that a cupola, shown on the plan, be omitted. By 1909, a legislative committee recommended enlarging the State House by building a fireproof addition and making improvements to the existing building. The full legislature concurred and, with unusual swiftness, money was appropriated; for the first time, Concord did not foot the bill. The Boston architectural firm of Peabody and Stearns was engaged and drawings were completed within two months. The New Hampshire State House is the oldest U.S. statehouse in which the House of Representatives and Senate still meet in their original chambers.

A History of the State House, New Hampshire Almanac

1817 The Town of Portsmouth, having assumed responsibility for maintenance of the state house, carried out the first of a series of repairs, some of which entailed removal of deteriorated exterior architectural features. 1769 The second phase of construction and finishing was completed. 1765 Protests against the Stamp Act were held at the state house. 1753 John Downing of the council presented a plan for a brick state house to measure 30 by 80 feet.

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It was also without a dome - a deficiency that was remedied with a huge addition during the Civil War. When they built the dome, just a few floors above our heads now, they rested it unsecured, held in place by its own weight. The building was designed and built to house the General Court, its committees, the Governor and Council, the Secretary of State, the State Treasurer, and the State Library. The windows on the first floor are rectangular in shape, those on the second floor are arched, and those on the third floor are square panels. An octagonal drum with large arched windows supports a golden dome with bull's-eye windows and supporting a small lantern.

A proposed amendment could significantly narrow the focus of the legislation, banning only gender-affirming genital surgeries and removing the language on schools. Several bills that could affect the rights of transgender Granite Staters are headed for a vote this week. It's time to wrap up the field trip and get the Speaker downstairs. For most people, dome access comes with the caveat of being a civil servant with a ton of work. One at a time, we take one last, shorter, set of stairs into the tiny cupola – called the “lantern.” You can’t get any higher in Concord – unless, of  course, you’re a gilded eagle.

New Hampshire's vote (the ninth of thirteen) established the Constitution as the plan of government for the nation. 1757 After several unsuccessful attempts to get Governor Benning Wentworth to assent to the house vote, the house increased the appropriation to 2,500 pounds new tenor and the governor concurred. In recent years the eagle was replaced by an element-proof metal replica, and the statues were made tarnish-proof to withstand the harsh New England conditions. In 1937, the State House Annex was added, which is connected to the main building by an underground passageway. For more information, follow New Hampshire State House 200 on Facebook (facebook.com/NHStateHouse200). The Swenson Granite Company on Rattlesnake Hill supplied quarried granite for this construction.

The first House consisted of 87 members, each one representing 100 families. As time passed and the population increased, the number of Representatives grew, until there were 443. In 1942, a constitutional amendment limited the size of the House to 400 but not less than 375 members. As a result, the New Hampshire House is the largest state legislative body in the United States. The first women legislators were elected to the House in 1921. Again the city of Manchester entered the scene, offering the million if the state house might be removed and rebuilt there.