Baltimore City Hall

Baltimore City Hall
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General information
Architectural styleSecond Empire
Location100 North Holliday St., Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinates39°17′27.1″N 76°36′38.5″W / 39.290861°N 76.610694°W / 39.290861; -76.610694
Completed1867–1875
Design and construction
Architect(s)George A. Frederick, Wendel Bollman
DesignatedMay 8, 1973
Reference no.73002180[1]
Designated1971

Baltimore City Hall is the official seat of government of the City of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland. The City Hall houses the offices of the Mayor and those of the City Council of Baltimore. The building also hosts the city Comptroller, some various city departments, agencies and boards/commissions along with the historic chambers of the Baltimore City Council. Situated on a city block bounded by East Lexington Street on the north, Guilford Avenue (formerly North Street) on the west, East Fayette Street on the south and North Holliday Street with City Hall Plaza and the War Memorial Plaza to the east, the six-story structure was designed by the then 22-year-old new architect, George Aloysius Frederick (1842–1924) in the Second Empire style, a Baroque revival, with prominent Mansard roofs with richly-framed dormers, and two floors of a repeating Serlian window motif over an urbanely rusticated basement.[2][3]

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Baltimore City Hall". Johns Hopkins University. Archived from the original on 2008-04-14. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
  3. ^ Arthur Townsend (June 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Baltimore City Hall" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2016-03-01.