Nashville.

The hilltop State Capitol offers a close look at Tennessee’s Greek Revival seat of government. Visit for the building and its civic history, then connect it with the park below.

The limestone exterior and legislative interiors put state government into a distinctive nineteenth-century setting. The building’s construction also has a harder history: enslaved workers helped carve its cellar, a fact that changes how its stonework reads today. The hilltop setting makes that history especially visible.

• Greek Revival forms define the Capitol’s hilltop exterior.
• Legislative spaces remain part of the working government building.
• The limestone cellar reflects labor by enslaved workers.

Check the current pedestrian approach because grounds work can change routes.

Combine the visit with Bicentennial Capitol Mall below the hill.