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Finan Hearing Room

Originally designed to serve as the Law Library of the Ohio Supreme Court, the Richard H. Finan Hearing Room today is used as a meeting space by the Senate Finance Committee. Th ...

Grand Staircase

The Grand Stair Hall is an elaborate and impressive public space that provides connection for the street level entrance of the building, one floor below, with the Statehouse tha ...

Senate Hearing Rooms

The North and South Hearing Rooms are located on the second floor of the Senate Building. These rooms originally were designed as hearing rooms for the Ohio Supreme Court. The S ...

Statehouse

The Statehouse is situated on a 10 acre parcel of land that was donated by John Kerr, Lyne Starling, John Johnston and Alexander McLaughlin, four prominent landholders in the Fr ...

Cupola

The Ohio Statehouse is built in the Greek Revival style, a type of architectural design based on the buildings of ancient Greece and very popular in the U.S. during the early an ...

Governor's Office

The Governor's Office you see today is virtually identical to the Governor's office that Abraham Lincoln saw in 1861. According to historical records, Lincoln sat at this desk a ...

House Chamber

The House Chamber is approximately the same size as the Senate Chamber and accommodates Ohio's 99 elected state representatives. The Chamber was largely designed by Nathan B. Ke ...

Light Courts

In the early 1800s when the Statehouse originally was designed, gas lighting was not commonly used indoors. Rooms on the outer edge of the building had windows as a source of li ...

Map Room

Inside the building, one of the most popular elements is the Map Room. Constructed of five types of marble from around the world, as well as limestone, the large map of Ohio ill ...

Museum Education Center

The Museum Gallery is the area located directly under the Rotunda on the ground floor. When the Statehouse was constructed, boilers that heated the building were housed in this ...