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 City Hall - Columbus, OH
N 39° 57.740 W 083° 00.204
17S E 328890 N 4425498
The City Hall in Columbus, Ohio, is located at 90 West Broad Street.
Waymark Code: WMKE23
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 03/28/2014
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The CITY HALL, bounded by Gay, Front, and Broad Sts., and Riverside Drive, occupies, with its park, an entire block in the heart of the civic center. The five-story structure of Indiana limestone, in Greco-Roman style, was designed by the Allied Architects Association of Columbus and cost $1,700,000. Three of the four sections of the building, which surround a court, were completed in 1928, and the fourth was dedicated in 1936. The hall houses various municipal departments and contains a city council chamber that seats more than 400. At night varicolored lights play upon a fountain before the Broad Street entrance. ---Ohio: The Ohio Guide, 1940
This is Columbus' third and current city hall building. The current city hall took nearly 6 years to plan and design, and an old steel mill was torn down for construction. The building's cornerstone was officially laid on October 29, 1926, in front of about 1,500 people. Following the placement of the cornerstone, it took about 18 months for construction of the building to be completed.
Book: Ohio
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 255
Year Originally Published: 1940
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