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5 unusual facts about Virginia State Capitol


Crestar Bank

Now known as the SunTrust Center, Crestar's former headquarters, a 24 story office tower, located a block from the Virginia State Capitol in the heart of downtown Richmond is one of Richmond's premiere class "A" office buildings.

George Chahoon

When the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals met in the Virginia State Capitol on 27 April 1870 to render its opinion, the overcrowded gallery collapsed.

Granite, Virginia

The McIntosh Quarry furnished the stone used in the approaches and steps in the renovation and expansion of the Virginia State Capitol which had recently been completed (1904–06).

Johnston de Peyster

He saw service in the eastern theater, and is best remembered for raising the first Union flag over the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia, after its fall in 1865.

He is credited with raising the first Union flag over the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia after its fall.


Court End

Early American Federal architecture that is open to the public in Court End include the John Marshall House, Monumental Church, the Wickham House at the Valentine Richmond History Center, the White House of the Confederacy at the Museum of the Confederacy, Executive Mansion and Virginia State Capitol.

Shad Planking

The site is the wooded property of a sportsmen's club near U.S. Route 460 near the incorporated town of Wakefield in Sussex County, about an hour southeast of the Virginia State Capitol at Richmond.


see also

Intelligent Transit

Intelligent Transit (iT) is a joint venture bus service of the Tri-State Transit Authority and the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority system, which operates a twice per day bus link between downtown Huntington, West Virginia and downtown Charleston, West Virginia, with stops at the Marshall University main campus, the Teays Valley suburbs, and at the West Virginia State Capitol Building.