Because the basic reasons for the skyscraper--exaggerated land values and proximity to transportation centers--are utterly lacking in this capacious prairie State, much criticism has been directed at the type of statehouse chosen.
Soon after Pine left Mount Vernon, Houdon, the eminent French portrait-sculptor was there, at the request of the legislature of Virginia, who had ordered a statue of Washington to be executed for the statehouse at Richmond.
In the meantime, crowds of people were anxiously waiting in the street in front of the old statehouse in Philadelphia to hear the decision of the Congress.
The man who first spoke publicly against these search warrants, in the old statehouse in Boston, was James O´tis.
He spoke to no one on the way, though he paused under a large oak about half way between the statehouse and the beach, and gazed long on the town and surrounding country.
The deputies were inflexible, and a fair copy of the letter was made from the pieces, taken to the Statehouse and read to the inhabitants.
Among these may be found the Liberty Bell, which hung in the tower of the statehouse for many years.
Independence Hall was built to be used as a statehousefor the colony of Pennsylvania.
Most of the furniture in the building was secured from the statehouse by Senator Fairbank, to whom a large part of Massachusetts's success at the fair was due.
Portraits of great value, taken from the statehouseat Annapolis, as well as one of his eminence Cardinal Gibbons, lent an air of dignity.
A few copies signed by Hancock, president of Congress, and Thomson, the secretary, were made public on July 5; and on July 8 one of these was read to a crowd of people in the Statehouse yard at Philadelphia.
The models thus built were put in the Statehouse at Boston for anybody to copy who wished, and mills were soon started at Worcester, Beverly, and Providence.
The old statehouse at Jamestown had burned down, and there was urgent need for an appropriation to build a new one.
The third statehouse was more pretentious than its predecessors, being two stories high, with a medieval porch in front, the tile-covered roof dominated by chimney stacks probably in the Tudor style.
The Burgesses, hearing the hubbub, rushed to the windows of their hall on the second story of the statehouse to witness the exciting scenes below.
Since the statehouse at Jamestown was still in ashes, the Assembly of June, 1680, crowded into the house of Mrs. Susanne Fisher.
As they sat in the spacious hall where the Assembly had met after the burning of the statehouse in Jamestown, they denounced Jeffreys as a nincompoop, who was not worth a groat in England, as a liar, as a "worse rebel than Bacon.
This structure generally fits the description of the First Statehousein its 3-unit construction and dimensions, and has long been thought to be the original Statehouse building.
Here may be the earliest cemetery yet revealed at Jamestown--one so old that it was forgotten by the 1660's when the Third Statehouse was erected.
One is the Last Statehouse Group of five units in the APVA grounds.
The structure, however, is as close to the present shoreline as the First Statehouse is recorded to have been in 1642--a puzzling coincidence, if the factor of erosion is taken into consideration.
On the way to the Statehouse in the aircar, I kept wondering just how smart I had been.
At Jamestown orders were given in 1663 to build a statehouse in lieu of the alehouses and ordinaries where laws had been made previously.
Such buildings were to take the place of private dwellings and ordinaries in the same way as did the statehouse at Jamestown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "statehouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
