Visit Massachusetts Statehouse

I would visit Massachusetts Statehouse on July 2nd afternoon. But today I got up late, so I have to go there by myself. I took the orange line to the Downtown and then walked to the State House. It’s really easy to find because the Statehouse is located at Boston in the Beacon Hill neighborhood.
When I arrived to the Statehouse, there was a beautiful tourist guide introduced every place to us. The building houses the Massachusetts General Court (state legislature) and the offices of the Governor of Massachusetts. The building is situated on 6.7 acres (27,000 m²) of land on top of Beacon Hill in Boston. It was built on land once owned by John Hancock, Massachusetts's first elected governor.
The original red-brick Bullfinch building contains the Governor's offices (on the west end) with the Massachusetts Senate occupying the former House of Representatives Chamber under the dome. The Massachusetts House of Representatives occupies a chamber on the west side of the Brigham addition. Hanging over this chamber is the Sacred Cod, which was given to the House of Representatives in 1784 by a Boston merchant. The Sacred Cod symbolizes the importance of the fishing industry to the early Massachusetts economy.
My favorite place is the second floor; the second floor under the dome is decorated by murals painted by artist Edward Brodney. Brodney won a competition to paint the first mural in a contest sponsored by the Works Progress Administration in 1936. It is entitled "Columbia Knighting Her World War Disabled." Brodney couldn't afford to pay models, and friends and family posed. The model for Columbia was Brodney's sister Norma Brodney Cohen, and the model for the soldier on one knee in the foreground was his brother Fred Brodney. In 1938, he painted a second mural under the dome called "World War Mothers." The models were again primarily friends and family members, with Sister Norma sitting beside their mother Sarah Brodney. The New York Times notes that the murals are relatively rare examples of military art with women as their subjects.
Finally, we have leaved the Statehouse when the tourist guide finished introducing. Then I had supper in Chinatown. That was a really happy day.