An additional 10 acres (4 ha) was also purchased from United States Senator William Maclay.
The legislature voted in 1810 to relocate the capital again and moved the seat of government to Harrisburg in October 1812 onto the land originally given by Harris a decade earlier. From 1799 to 1812, the legislature resided in Lancaster at the Old City Hall.
In 1799, the legislature voted to relocate the capital to Lancaster instead of Harrisburg, because of Lancaster's greater population. Harris also laid out a city in 1785, near his plot of land, and named it in honor of his father. offered to give 4 acres (2 ha) and 21 square perches (5,717 ft 2 531 m 2) of land near the banks of the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania to the state, provided that it be eventually used as the site of the capital. With both the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the First and Second Continental Congresses, and the Confederation Congress, three predecessors of the modern Congress of the United States occupying Independence Hall from 1774 to 1789, the state legislature considered proposals for moving the seat of the state government. Pennsylvania's first statehouse, now known as Independence Hall, was built in Philadelphia starting in 1732 and was completed in 1753. The government did not have a regular meeting place and often met in Quaker meeting houses or at private residences in Philadelphia. William Penn formed the first government of the then- Province of Pennsylvania on October 28, 1682, in Chester, Pennsylvania. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006 the boundaries of the designation were expanded to include the Capitol Complex in 2013 with the capitol as a contributing property. The Pennsylvania State Capitol is often referred to as a "palace of art" because of its many sculptures, murals, and stained-glass windows, most of which are Pennsylvania-themed or Pennsylvanian-made. The construction and subsequent furnishing cost three times more than the General Assembly had appropriated for the design and construction architect Joseph Huston and four others were convicted of graft for price gouging. After its completion, the capitol project was the subject of a graft scandal. President Theodore Roosevelt attended the building's dedication in 1906. The second, the Cobb Capitol, was left unfinished when funding was discontinued in 1899. The first, the Hills Capitol, was destroyed in 1897 by a fire. The current capitol, known as the Huston Capitol, is the third state capitol building built in Harrisburg.
The seat of government for the state was initially in Philadelphia, then was relocated to Lancaster in 1799 and finally to Harrisburg in 1812. It is also the main building of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex. The capitol houses the legislative chambers for the Pennsylvania General Assembly, made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the Harrisburg chambers for the Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania, as well as the offices of the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor. state of Pennsylvania located in downtown Harrisburg which was designed by architect Joseph Miller Huston in 1902 and completed in 1906 in a Beaux-Arts style with decorative Renaissance themes throughout. The Pennsylvania State Capitol is the seat of government for the U.S.
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