The handsome Streamline Moderne-style Art Deco combination building for the San Angelo City Hall and Municipal Auditorium stands at 500 Rio Concho Drive, a block north of the Tom Green County Courthouse in downtown San Angelo TX.
This 1928 combination City Hall and Municipal Auditorium was built in the Streamline Moderne Art Deco.
From The Henry C. Trost Organization website: (
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""San Angelo City Hall and Auditorium, San Angelo, Texas
Description: San Angelo City Hall and Auditorium
Other Names: none
Address: City Hall Plaza, San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas
Type: government: city hall and auditorium
Original Client: City of San Angelo, Texas
Historic Inventory: Texas Historical Commission Site SA0299
Date: opened February 8, 1929; grand reopening October 22, 1982
Condition: extant; restored 1982
Architect or Firm: Gustavus A. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost (Gustavus A. Trost,Partner in charge, according to San Angelo Morning Times, February 7, 1929, page 5, column 2); Eugene V. Spence, supervising engineer
Contractors: Ware Company, Contractors
Dimensions and Orientation: faces South; highest portion is four stories plus central pyramid attic; College Avenue (principal) facade: 140 feet wide; West First Street (rear) façade: 84 feet wide; length, exclusive of exterior entrance stairway: 208 feet; height: 68 feet, as measured from ground to rectangular drum at base of pyramid attic, or from ground to top of stage house
Budget/Cost: $335,000; $234,000 April 6, 1928
Foundation: concrete and steel
Wall Materials: Bedford limestone from Indiana, reinforced concrete; tile curtain walls, brick veneer
Roofing Materials: shingle tile roof over central pyramid
Other Materials Used: interior of auditorium is Celotex tile. Stenciled in a polychrome pattern
Remodeling and Additions: restored by Ron Barbutti, architect with offices in San Angelo and Hondo, Texas, at a cost of $950,000; re-opened October 22, 1982 (Inez Russell, Auditorium to Have Grand Re-opening, San Angelo Standard Times, October 5, 1982, page 7 B)"