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The interior of the Tennessee State Capitol

The building was originally lit by gaslight chandeliers. Some of the original fixtures remain; the others are restorations. This one illumines the chamber of the House of Representatives.

There are three stories to the building: the ground floor, originally conceived as a crypt; the Executive floor, containing the old Supreme Court chamber and the Governor's office, and the Legislative floor above that with the chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives and their Library.

	[ nnn pages, nnn photos ] Legislative floor, zzz.
	[ nnn pages, nnn photos ] And scattered thruout the Capitol, busts and portraits of famous Tennesseeans.

Most of the information on this page is taken from The Tennessee State Capitol, A Self-Guided Walking Tour by the Tennessee State Museum March 2003 (a booklet distributed free to visitors to the building)
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