Washington State Capitol

The Washington State Capitol or Legislative Building in Olympia is the home of the legislature of the territory of Washington. It contains chambers for the Washington State Legislature and workplaces for the senator, lieutenant representative, secretary of state and treasurer and is a piece of a grounds comprising of a few structures. Structures for the Washington Supreme Court, official organizations and the Washington Governor's Mansion are a piece of the state house campus. After Olympia wound up capital city of the Washington Territory in 1853, the city's originator, Edmund Sylvester, gave the lawmaking body 12 sections of land 4.9 ha of land whereupon to fabricate the legislative center, situated on a slope sitting above what is presently known as Capitol Lake.