Rhode Island State Capitol in Providence
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The current State House, a neoclassical building, is the seventh state house and the second in Providence after the Old Rhode Island State House. The building had a major renovation in the late 1990s. It is composed of 327,000 cubic ft. of white Georgia marble, 15 million bricks, and 1,309 short tons of iron floor beams. One of the first public buildings to use electricity, the Rhode Island State House is lit by 109 floodlights and two searchlights at night.
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