Kokomo City Building

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Kokomo City Building
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Former Kokomo City Building, January 2010
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Location 221 W. Walnut St., Kokomo, Indiana
Coordinates 40°29′13″N86°8′0″W / 40.48694°N 86.13333°W / 40.48694; -86.13333 Coordinates: 40°29′13″N86°8′0″W / 40.48694°N 86.13333°W / 40.48694; -86.13333
Area 0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built 1893 (1893)
Architect Wing & Mahurin; Heinzman Brothers
Architectural style Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP reference # 81000014 [1]
Added to NRHP June 4, 1981

Kokomo City Building is a historic municipal building located at Kokomo, Indiana. It was designed by the architecture firm of Wing & Mahurin and built about 1893. It is a two-story, Richardsonian Romanesque style brick and limestone building on a raised basement. It features rounded corner towers topped by conical roofs and a central stone arch entrance. It the rear of the building is the former fire station used until 1979. [2] :2–3

Seat of local government chief administrative building of a municipality

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Kokomo, Indiana City in Indiana, United States

Kokomo is a city in and the county seat of Howard County, Indiana, United States. Kokomo is Indiana's 13th-largest city. It is the principal city of the Kokomo, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Howard County. Kokomo's population was 46,113 at the 2000 census, and 45,468 at the 2010 census. On January 1, 2012, Kokomo successfully annexed more than 7 square miles (18 km2) on the south and west sides of the city, including Alto and Indian Heights, increasing the city's population to nearly 57,000 people.

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-04-01.Note: This includes Richard A. Kastl (October 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Kokomo City Building" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01. and Accompanying photographs.