It is located in the state capital of Raleigh on Union Square at One East Edenton Street.

[7] The legislature relocated to its current location in the North Carolina State Legislative Building in 1963.

Only three rooms have been significantly altered through remodeling: the two committee rooms in the east and west wings of the second floor, which were divided horizontally to provide space for restrooms, and the office in the east wing of the first floor, part of which had to be cut away to permit space for an elevator to be installed in 1951.

[11] Following the heated protests for racial equality of 2020, Governor Roy Cooper ordered the removal of the largest Confederate statue on the State Capitol Grounds.

[13] The North Carolina General Assembly may have initially met in Tryon Palace after being vacated by the British in 1776.

A bust of the 29th Governor of North Carolina (1841–1845), John Motley Morehead, sits inside the capitol.