Galveston City Hall | |
 Galveston City Hall | |
  Galveston City Hall  Galveston City Hall | |
| Location | 823 Rosenberg Avenue Galveston, Texas |
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| Coordinates | 29°18′01″N94°47′43″W / 29.30028°N 94.79528°W |
| Built | 1916 |
| Architect | C. D. Hall & Company |
| Architectural style | French Renaissance |
| NRHP reference No. | 84001676 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 14, 1984 |
The Galveston City Hall is located at 823 Rosenberg Avenue. It is the first of three city halls constructed for Galveston.
in 1846, Mayor John Sydnor proposed converting the old marketplace to a combined city hall and marketplace. The old market was located on municipally-owned land on Market Street between 20th and 21st streets. Yet this plan lacked financing until the 1880s, when the city hired Alfred Muller to design a city hall. The cornerstone was laid on March 2, 1888. The French Renaissance-style building reserved the ground floor for the market stalls, with the top two floors for municipal offices. The building was flanked on the east and west by its staircases and supported by Ionic columns to the north, which were covered by a portico. This city hall was in use until 1916 and demolished in 1966. [2]
Originally conceived as part of a City Beautiful civic center, Galveston relocated its new city hall from the old city market site to Rosenberg Avenue. The architecture firm of C. D. Hill & Company also designed a city hall for Dallas, employed Italian forms for its palazzo-type structure and its portico. Originally designed with a civic auditorium attached, it was replaced by a fire station after Hurricane Carla. [3]
Rosenberg Library, a public library located at 2310 Sealy Street in Galveston, Texas, United States, is the oldest continuously operating library in Texas. It serves as headquarters of the Galveston County Library System, and its librarian is also the Galveston County Librarian.
The Bishop's Palace, also known as Gresham's Castle, is an ornate 19,082 square feet (1,772.8 m2) Victorian-style house, located on Broadway and 14th Street in the East End Historic District of Galveston, Texas.
Nicholas Joseph Clayton was a prominent Victorian era architect in Galveston, Texas.
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Alfred Charles Finn was an American architect. He started in the profession with no formal training in 1904 as an apprentice for Sanguinet & Staats. He worked in their offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston. His credits during his tenure residential structures, but firm was a leader in steel-frame construction of skyscrapers.
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Eugene Edwards Aubry was an American architect, based primarily in Houston, Texas and later in Orlando, Florida. He was best known for the public buildings and houses he designed and co-designed in Houston, notably the Rice Museum at Rice University and the Alfred C. Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Art Houston, the Rothko Chapel, and Wortham Center. Architecture writers credit the Art Barn's industrial aesthetic with inspiring Houston's so-called "Tin House" movement, as well adaptations by Frank Gehry. Aubry was partners with two other well-known Houston architects, Howard Barnstone and S.I. Morris, and worked on projects with Philip Johnson before starting his own firm, Aubry Architects in Sarasota, Florida in 1986. He completed the Rothko Chapel after artist Mark Rothko clashed with Johnson, who was the original architect.
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