statehouse
Governor's workplace often
A statehouse is a building where a U.S. state legislature meets—the state-level equivalent of the Capitol in Washington.
The term appears in news coverage of state politics: Protesters gathered at the statehouse.
Also spelled as two words: state house.
Rounded vault forming roof
- rotundaCircular domed chamber
- capitolState legislative building
- chamberEnclosed room or cavity
- facadeDeceptive outward appearance
pillar · column · marble · granite · atrium · hall · staircase · entrance
Lawmaking governmental branch
- senateLegislative governing body
- assemblyConstructing from components
- lawmakersElected officials writing statutes
- sessionScheduled time for activity
committee · bill · statute · amendment · resolution · debate · voting · floor
State's chief executive
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- executiveSenior organizational leader
- cabinetEnclosed storage furniture
- vetoOfficial refusal to approve
budget · policy · representative · senator · bureaucracy · politics · bipartisan · constituent
Rule by the people
- electionOrganized public voting
- ballotVoting document
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- citizenshipStatus as state member
referendum · precinct · rally · protest · advocacy · petition · town hall · public comment
Inherited cultural legacy
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- restorationReturning something to condition
- landmarkNotable point of reference
- colonialOf occupied territories
Victorian · register · monument · tour · tradition · artifact · chronicle · architecture
dome
Rounded vault forming roof
facade · pillar · column · marble · granite · atrium · hall · staircase · entrance · architecture
legislature
Lawmaking governmental branch
- senateLegislative governing body
- assemblyConstructing from components
- lawmakersElected officials writing statutes
session · committee · bill · statute · amendment · resolution · debate · voting · floor · caucus
governor
State's chief executive
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- executiveSenior organizational leader
- cabinetEnclosed storage furniture
veto · budget · policy · representative · senator · bureaucracy · politics · bipartisan · constituent · jurisdiction
democracy
Rule by the people
citizenship · referendum · precinct · rally · protest · advocacy · petition · town hall · public comment · grassroots
heritage
Inherited cultural legacy
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- restorationReturning something to condition
- landmarkNotable point of reference
colonial · Victorian · register · monument · tour · tradition · artifact · chronicle · architecture · antebellum
- state capitols
- Power Centersheadquarters, head office, main office, central office, command center
- capitolscapitol, Capitol dome, Capitol Hill, rotunda, U.S. Capitol
- Colonial VirginiaJamestown, James River, tobacco cultivation, Powhatan, Pocahontas
- state buildingscapitol, governor's mansion, rotunda, legislative chamber, assembly hall
- state governmentgovernor's office, legislature, lieutenant governor, attorney general, departments
statehouseU.S. Capitol
Seat of American legislature
Capitol · Congress · White House · city hall · town hall
statehousecorporate headquarters
Firm's primary administrative location
private residence · home · commercial building · church · private sector
statehousegovernor's mansion
Official home of state leader
state supreme court · executive mansion · courthouse · prison · state penitentiary