City hall
Tennessee State Capitol
Greek Revival statehouse of quarried limestone, still in active use, built without a dome.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville opens on the building's steepest lawn, where a Nashville Predators executive left his mark with a spray can during a playoff run. From there it reaches back to architect William Strickland, who raised the limestone statehouse between eighteen forty-five and eighteen fifty-nine using enslaved and prison labor. Tennessee's capitol turns out to be the only one in the country with bodies built into its walls. Best heard standing at the bottom of that steep lawn, looking up toward the limestone above.
This audio guide was created using AI.