Scope and Content: On July 4, 1795, the cornerstone for the newly commissioned  Massachusetts State House being designed by Charles Bulfinch was brought to the new site in a ceremonial  parade from what is now known as the Old State House, and laid by Gov. Samuel Adams and Masonic Grand Master Paul Revere.   In 1995 the bicentennial of the cornerstone laying was observed by a parade once again from the Old State House to the steps of the Bulfinch State House, in a ceremony presided over by Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin and Masonic Grand Master Daniel Lovering to reenact the 1795 cornerstone laying.    (The cornerstone originally contained what is today known as a time capsule, replaced in a new container with enhanced contents in 1855, and with yet further enhancements  placed with the others in an additional container in 2015 (see: State House  time capsule files, 2014-2015 ((M-Ar)2658X); also: Bulfinch State House bicentennial files, 1998 ((M-Ar)2308X)).
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