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The Michigan State Capitol is the building that houses the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is in the portion of the state capital of Lansing which lies in Ingham County.
The Michigan Capitol is open to visitors year-round, Monday through Friday. The Capitol is closed on Michigan’s state holidays except for election day. Find a list of state holidays at https://www.michigan.gov/som/government/state-holidays.
More than 40 years after Michigan entered the Union, the state finally had a seat of government to be proud of. One of the first to take inspiration from the just-remodeled national Capitol in Washington, D.C., Michigan’s new statehouse became, in turn, the model for other state capitols.
In 2020, the Michigan State Capitol launched an ongoing effort to publish short biographies of the many different women who have served in our state legislature. Click the cover to download the latest pdf edition featuring female legislators from the 1920s-1960s.
The Michigan State Capitol has served as Michigan's seat of state government since its completion in 1879. The Michigan capitol was the first of three state capitols designed by Elijah E. Myers in the 1870s and 1880s.
The west side of Capitol Square is home to a state-of-the-art geothermal system that provides clean, renewable heating and cooling for the Capitol. Comprised of nearly 300 wells, bored 500 feet deep, it uses the earth’s constant 54-degree temperate as a heat source in the winter and a heat sink in the summer.
