Baltimore City Hall
| Baltimore City Hall | |
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| Architectural style | Second Empire style, a Baroque revival |
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100 North Holliday Street, (between East Lexington and Fayette Streets), facing City Hall Plaza/War Memorial Plaza. Baltimore, Maryland 21202 |
| Town or city | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 39°17′28″N 76°36′39″W / 39.291°N 76.61073°WCoordinates: 39°17′28″N 76°36′39″W / 39.291°N 76.61073°W |
| Completed | 1867-1875 |
| Cost | $50,271,135.64 |
| Client | Mayor and City Council of Baltimore |
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Baltimore City Hall
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| Location | 100 N. Holliday St., Baltimore, Maryland |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1867 |
| Architect | Frederick, George A.; Bollman, Wendel |
| Architectural style | Renaissance, French Renaissance Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 73002180 |
| Added to NRHP | May 8, 1973 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | George Aloysuis Frederick, (1842-1924) |
100 North Holliday Street, (between East Lexington and Fayette Streets), facing City Hall Plaza/War Memorial Plaza.
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.
The building's cornerstone was laid on the southeastern corner of the new municipal structure (on the northwestern corner of Fayette and Holliday Streets) in October, 1867 (with a famous historical photograph taken of the ceremony, audience stands and crowds from overhead on East Fayette Street with the east side of Holliday Street visible behind the stands showing the famed Holliday Street Theatre, where in November 12, 1814, the new poem by Francis Scott Key, (1779-1843), "The Defence of Fort McHenry" was first performed on the stage and next door (to the north), Prof. Knapp's School [attended by famed writer/author/editor H. L. Mencken in the 1880s and the townhouses where the Loyola College and Loyola High School were founded in 1852, just to the left (south) next to the theatre was the vacant lot formerly housing the Theatre Tavern where the new song the Star-Spangled Banner was often sung to the merriment of all [later the CHS/BCC playground], and the edge of the old "Assembly-Rooms" social/concert/dance hall for the elite that later was home to the Central High School of Baltimore (later the Baltimore City College, 1843-1873), when the Theatre and School perished in a large famous fire. The massive new "pile" of a City Hall, acclaimed by many throughout the nation, was officially dedicated on October 25, 1875, $200,000 under-budget from its $2,500,000 appropriation, amazingly and proudly in those "Robber Baron" Gilded Age times of the 19th Century.
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