Twenty-six senators met in the large second-floor chamber.
During its ten-year residence in Philadelphia, the Senate conducted its proceedings in the second-floor chamber of that city's recently reconstructed "Congress Hall."
In its elegant second-floor chamber, the Senate became the agent of compromise that helped avoid civil war for four decades.
Tucked away here, in a dank second-floor chamber, is a memento of the country's most famous postal worker.
They've transformed the downstairs into elegant salons and have combined some second-floor chambers into big bedrooms ready for their 15 pages of design-magazine fame.
Instead, it is an insular clubhouse affair, whose participants are limited to the 51 people who sit in the second-floor chamber at City Hall.
Congress moved to Philadelphia in 1790, where the Senate occupied the second-floor chamber in Congress Hall.
It is a second-floor chamber above the front door, so that the woman dressing can part the purple drapes to see the street outside beyond a wrought-iron balcony.
In the Senate's elegantly outfitted second-floor chamber, senators found two semicircular rows of mahogany writing desks and a canopied dais for the presiding officer.
Rufus followed them upstairs to a second-floor chamber.