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This T-shaped space lies between the three rooms added to the north end of the Central Wing's first floor in 1885. These three rooms -- the present day restrooms and the Riverfront Room -- served as the foundation of the immense expansion of the legislative chamber above. The 1885 renovators saw themselves as modernizing the structure along Victorian lines, so they felt no compunction to preserve the State House's Greek Revival characteristics. Evidence of this is that the brickwork in the North Breezeway was left exposed and not plastered over. The longer passageway of the North Breezeway ran completely through the building from east to west and was open at both ends, exposing the entire breezeway to the elements. The shorter north-south passageway led to the same northern exterior doorway that existed prior to 1885. (This shorter passage is obscured on the floor plan by the male and female icons.) The North Breezeway was not closed to the elements until the mid-1980s.
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