Colonial Capitol Building

Reconstructed colonial Virginia Capitol at the east end of Duke of Gloucester Street, where the House of Burgesses met from 1705 until the capital moved to Richmond in 1780. The chamber where Patrick Henry delivered his Stamp Act resolutions in 1765, where George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights was debated, and where Virginia's revolutionary conventions authorized the push for independence. The original building burned in 1747; the reconstruction (1934) faithfully replicates the H-plan original based on documentary evidence.