Old Senate Chamber Restoration Effort Needs Your Help

Check grandma’s attic. Flip through that old photo album. Scrape the bottom of that long-forgotten desk drawer.

Historians are seeking the public’s assistance in piecing together the elements that went into creating the Old Senate Chamber in the State House. The room where George Washington impressed the whole civilized world by resigning his commission as commander of the Continental Army — rather than declaring a dictatorship — needs renovation.

The archivists, historians and architects charged with restoring the room to the way it was on that momentous day in December 1783 are seeking old photographs, picture postcards, drawings, documents (including diary entries) or artifacts that depict or describe the room’s original architecture and materials.

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