Town Halls and Public Buildings to visit The United States Of America

The huge building is preceded by monumental stairs and surrounded by gigantic columns, which makes it immediately noticeable! Next to Madison Square Garden, right across the street, it stands out frankly. This is the main building of United States Postal Services (USPS), the American postal service. It was built in 1912, and you can still post postcards on it! Part of the building is part of a major expansion project at Penn Station. Once the work is completed, this is where Amtrak trains should be operating.

The Capitole is the legislative building of Colorado, located exactly one mile (1.6 km) above sea level. It houses the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Governor's Office, the Lieutenant Governor's Office and the Treasury Department. That is where the laws are created and voted on. The building, conceived in the late nineteenth century by Elijah E. Myers in a neoclassical style, has, like the capitol of Washington, D.C., a Greek cross-shaped base.

A free visit to the building will allow you to admire its architecture, whose raw materials are emblematic of the state's riches. The exterior walls are made of granite extracted in the Gunnison region (Colorado), the pink stone found repeatedly in the building comes from Beulah (Colorado), it is a coloring of unique onyx in the world. Floors are built in marble marble (Colorado). Finally, the dome gold comes from a gift of almost 5 kilos made by miners in Colorado. Rising to more than 80 meters high and glittering gold, the dome is a great tribute to the state's mining history.

Free visits from the Capitole take place every day from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. without reservation requirements for groups below 12 people. The Chamber of Representatives and Senate rooms are open to the public from mid-January to mid-May, Monday through Friday. Gallery guides are also available.

City Hall is New York City Hall, home to the city council, the mayor's offices and various other government departments. The building, built between 1803 and 1812 and restored in 1956, is a prestigious colonial-style building. The steps of this building are famous and popular because of the various events and press conferences that took place there. In the lobby, you can see the trophy won by the New York Yankees in 1996 at the world championships. You can also visit the Governor's Room, an elegant room where various portraits of important men illustrating the history of the United States (Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton...) are displayed. This room was George Washington's office. City Hall Park around the building is a very pleasant green space. In the past, it was a place of public executions. Don't be surprised by the very French influences of architecture, it was the Frenchman Joseph François Mangin (1794-1818) who drew the plans for the building. The vaulted windows and ornaments are inspired by the hexagonal architecture of the time. It is also where many New Yorkers get married here! To say"yes" to New York, you must go to the adjoining building, the Office of the City Clerk - Marriage Bureau, where you will obtain your marriage license for the modest sum of US$35. You can get married the next day. However, it is impossible to choose the time of the ceremony, you will have to go there and wait until it is your turn.