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  statehouse

  noun

  the building in which the legislature of a state sits; the capitol of a state.
• Statehouse
  Statehouse

  noun

  (in the US) the building which houses a state legislature; State capitol

statehouse

American  

[steyt-hous] / ˈsteɪtˌhaʊs /

noun

statehouses plural

1. the building in which the legislature of a state sits; the capitol of a state.

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Statehouse British  

/ ˈsteɪtˌhaʊs /

noun

1. (in the US) the building which houses a state legislature; State capitol

2. a building in which public affairs or state ceremonies are conducted

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Noun Inflected Forms

• statehouses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of statehouse

First recorded in 1585–95; state + house

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Reeling from a depressed economy, then an explosive greening problem, then hurricanes, they were soon going to the statehouse, desperate for bailout money.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

While lawmakers weigh new policies at the statehouse, Camarillo said she hopes the priority will be protecting communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

For statehouse denizens in Concord, the question of pay turns on competing views about the makeup of the legislative body and the virtues of volunteer lawmakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

"People had thought that we would have to move on to a legal strategy and didn't believe we could defeat it directly at the statehouse."

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025

The story of women’s suffrage ended with Henry Burn’s vote in the Tennessee statehouse in 1920, but it began almost a century earlier with Elizabeth Cady, a young girl in Johnstown, New York, in 1826.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

“Most people feel betrayed, and that’s bipartisan,” Stephen Otterstrom, a longtime Salt Lake City resident running to represent District 21 in the Statehouse, told me.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026

Thankfully, there are plenty of politically powerful women in the Statehouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

But Kelly told reporters Wednesday at the Statehouse that the issue wasn’t the potential damages in a lawsuit but the litigation distracting it from “the mission at hand” of improving the child welfare system.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

This happened after nearly 200 IVF patients filled the Alabama Statehouse pressuring lawmakers to get IVF services restarted as soon as possible, as reported by NPR.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024

Here may be the earliest cemetery yet revealed at Jamestown—one so old that it was forgotten by the 1660’s when the Third Statehouse was erected.

From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by Cotter, John L.

It might involve advocating behind the scenes with elected officials in Congress and statehouses, or with opinion leaders in the media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

“And as they moved inside the corridors of statehouses and the U.S. Congress, they focused on delivering for their constituents and building seniority.”

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2025

The impact of smartphone witnessing has been both immediate and unmistakable — visceral at street level, seismic in statehouses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

So, the work of rolling back mass incarceration has to be done in statehouses, down-ballot county elections, and local city budget hearings.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2024

In at least eight statehouses across the country, both Democratic and Republican lawmakers — sometimes working together — have introduced measures to define antisemitism.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2024