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In 1814, the Hartford Convention was held there. In 1839, the start of the Amistad trial was held there. The building had been in danger of closing in 2008 due to financial constraints. State and Hartford officials have recently signed a 99-year lease placing Connecticut's Old State House under new management.
The Connecticut State Capitol is located north of Capitol Avenue and south of Bushnell Park in Hartford, the capital of Connecticut.The building houses the Connecticut General Assembly; the upper house, the State Senate, and lower house, the House of Representatives, as well as the office of the Governor of the State of Connecticut.
The First National Bank Building is a historic commercial building at 50-58 State House Square in the heart of downtown Hartford, Connecticut.Built in 1899, it is a fine local example of Beaux Arts architecture, and was one of the first of Hartford's commercial buildings to have a steel frame.
The fourth Connecticut House of Representatives district elects one member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. The seat is held by Julio Concepcion . The district consists of part of the city of Hartford , including the neighborhoods of Charter Oak, South Meadows and Barry Square.
The House of Representatives has its basis in the earliest incarnation of the General Assembly, the "General Corte" established in 1636 whose membership was divided between six generally elected magistrates (the predecessor of the Connecticut Senate) and three-member "committees" representing each of the three towns of the Connecticut Colony (Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor).
The Connecticut Governor's Residence has served as the official residence since 1945. The house was originally built in 1909 for George C. F. Williams , a Hartford physician and industrialist. It was designed in the Georgian Revival style by the Boston-based architectural firm of Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul and built at a cost of $337,000.
The Connecticut General Assembly (CGA) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is a bicameral body composed of the 151-member House of Representatives and the 36-member Senate. It meets in the state capital, Hartford. There are no term limits for members of either chamber.
In April 2009, Meek held a mortgage modification event for homeowners and lenders at a Stamford, Connecticut community center. [11] The event led to the founding of the foreclosure counseling non-profit START Now!. [9] According to Meek, from April 2009 to March 2011, it had helped prevent foreclosures on 250 properties. [8]