The Pavilion (office building)

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The Pavilion at Montpelier, Vermont houses the working offices of the Governor of Vermont.

The Pavilion is the principal workplace of the Governor of Vermont and is located at Montpelier, in the U.S. state of Vermont. The building is built in the Second Empire style, and houses the working offices, reception rooms, and living apartments of Vermont's governor. The term "The Pavilion" is sometimes used as a metonym for a governor's administration, or the Vermont governorship.

Additional offices of Vermont's executive branch of government are housed in the Pavilion, as well as the state's historical museum. The five story building is a 1971 reconstruction of an 1876 hotel, also called the Pavilion. While a hotel, the Pavilion was refered to as Vermont's "third house" (after the Senate and House of Representatives) because it was so intertwined with Vermont's political history. The west and south exterior façades faithfully copies the original building. A large two-story porch wraps around the building's south and west sides. The Pavilion is located in the capital complex, just east of the Supreme Court of Vermont and the Vermont State House, which houses the governor's ceremonial office.