Specimens of New Hampshire
The New Hampshire State House, built between 1816 and 1819 and designed by architect Stuart Park.
The building was built in the Greek Revival style with smooth granite (natch!) blocks.
1922 map of New Hampshire published in the bulletin of the Brown {paper} Company in Berlin, N.H.
“I like your nickname, ‘The Granite State.’ It shows the strength of character, firmness of principle and restraint that have characterized New Hampshire.’’
President Gerald R. Ford, in a speech in Concord, New Hampshire’s capital, on April 17, 1975
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“Just specimens is all New Hampshire has,
One each of everything as in a show-case
Which naturally she doesn't care to sell.’’
— From the 1923 poem “New Hampshire,’’ by Robert Frost
The lilac is New Hampshire’s state flower.