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Definition of Statehouses
1. statehouse [n] - See also: statehouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Statehouses
Literary usage of Statehouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Meaning of Architecture: An Essay in Constructive Criticism by Irving Kane Pond (1918)
"The dome has its legitimate province as an expression of domination, and is so
employed, imitatively, on our statehouses; but is not this expression a ..."
2. World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893 by Committee on Awards, World's Columbian Commission, United States (1901)
"Many of these represented interesting colonial buildings, as in the case of the
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia statehouses, ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"... courthouses, and houses of assembly, of which several have lasted till the
present day, among these the old statehouses of Boston and Providence. ..."
4. The Virginia Handbook by Blair Howard, Mary K. Burnham, Bill Burnham (2005)
"At the west end of the settlement, is the location of the Third and Fourth
statehouses. Representative government grew and developed in these buildings. ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1897)
"... $5000 ; for expenses of enforcing laws of the State relating to fisheries,
$1200; for the Board of Health, $3500; for care of statehouses, $2200; ..."
6. White, Red, Black: Sketches of American Society in the United States During by Ferencz Aurelius Pulszky, Theresa Pulszky (1853)
"It strips bare the fact, that when a great city * The statehouses of the States
and the palace of the Congress in Washington bear all this name. ..."
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