After eating a nice lunch in Boston at an Irish pub (despite the uninvited company, another story...), we headed on to Providence, a 50 mile drive from Boston. Providence was rainy, but nice, small and easy to navigate around. Parking was also a lot simpler than Boston, being that our bed and breakfast (State House Inn at Providence, very quaint and nice!) was only blocks from the capitol building. 
We were thrilled to find it open at 4pm despite the travel book's posted closing time of 4pm. The actual closing time is 4:30pm, so note to yourself! :) The capitol was quite busy, with the House and Senate both in session. News stations roamed about, interviewing senators and whoever, so that was kind of fun. We even sat in on the Senate for a minute.
The outside is very grandiose, with a central marble dome (said to be the 4th largest unsupported dome in the world), and four surrounding smaller domes. The interior was relatively sparse of art, but still carried classical Latin paintings and symbols like many of the capitols seen previously.
There were a couple of cannons and many flags displayed from the civil war. A neat aspect of the outside was a marble porch that went all the way around the building (though the entrance was hard to find).
After the visit we went to the very cool "Wild Colonial" pub in Providence, in the bottom of a very old looking building and had some local brew. The people were kind, and service was great in Providence!
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