Charles Bulfinch designed the new State House. The original building is the red brick portion with the gold dome. Paul Revere and Sam Adams laid the cornerstone in 1795. Fifteen white horses were used to drag the cornerstone up Beacon Hill. Each horse represented one state in the Union (by 1795, Vermont and Kentucky had become states). The State House was completed in 1798. It was built on property purchased from the estate of John Hancock (Hancock died in 1793). Hancock’s house remained on Beacon Hill, next to the State House, until it was torn down in 1863.