The Legislative Office Building of the

New Hampshire State Legislature The General Court of New Hampshire is the bicameral state legislature of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. The lower house is the New Hampshire House of Representatives with 400 members. The upper house is the New Hampshire Senate with 24 memb ...

is a government office building across North State Street from the

New Hampshire State House The New Hampshire State House, located in Concord at 107 North Main Street, is the state capitol building of New Hampshire. The capitol houses the New Hampshire General Court, Governor, and Executive Council. The building was constructed on a ...

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. Built in 1889, it is one of the state's largest buildings built out of locally quarried granite. It was originally used as a post office and is listed on the

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as the Old Post Office. It was also included in the

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in 1983.

Description and history

New Hampshire's Legislative Office Building is located just west of the state capitol, occupying an entire city block bounded by North State Street, Capitol Street, Park Street, and Green Street. It is a large two-story granite structure, built in the

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style, with a Chateauesque hip roof crowned by iron cresting. The walls are finished in a rough-hewn texture, although the walls of the raised basement are smooth. The main facade faces east, and is dominated by an arcade of three squat Gothic arches supported by smooth round pillars. The main portion of the building was built between 1884 and 1889 for the federal government to a design by James Riggs Hill, the

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's Supervising Architect. The building was twice extended, in 1913 and 1938. When first built, it housed not only the post office, but other federal offices and the federal district court. The federal government occupied the building until 1967. The building was afterward acquired by the state and converted for use as legislative offices.

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Description and history

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