A National Historic Landmark
The Capitol Visitor Center is closed through December 2023 so DGS (Department of General Services) can complete renovations on the space. The Capitol Building remains open to visitors.↪ News Release
Welcome! The Virginia State Capitol was designed in 1785 by Thomas Jefferson with help from Charles-Louis Clérisseau while Jefferson was serving as U.S. Minister to France. The Virginia General Assembly occupied the Capitol in 1788 and members of the Virginia executive and judicial branches moved into the building in 1789. It is the first American State Capitol designed after the Revolutionary War and the first public building in the New World to be constructed in the form of a classical Roman temple. The e