Alameda City Hall

Alameda City Hall is a historic city hall civic building in Alameda, California.[2][3] The building has been continually used since it was first built in 1895.[2] It has a historical marker erected in 1998 by the Native Sons of the Golden West;[4] and is listed as one of the National Register of Historic Places since 1980.[2]

Alameda City Hall
Location2263 Santa Clara Ave.,
Alameda, Alameda County, California, U.S.
Coordinates37°45′59″N 122°14′35″W
Built1895 (1895)
ArchitectPercy & Hamilton,
Thomas Day & Son
Architectural styleRomanesque
NRHP reference No.80000791[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 14, 1980

History

The Alameda City Hall was built in 1895, and is remaining from the city's initial period of economic prosperity that was created by the expansion of the railroad network in the end of the 19th century.[2] It was constructed some twenty years after the city charter in 1872.[2] The city of Alameda was the first in California, and the second in the nation to operate their own power plant which opened a few years prior in 1886.[2] Alameda City Hall was designed with incandescent lighting in the late-19th century, which was considered a luxury at that time.[2] The building is a three-story, masonry structure with a hipped roof.[2]

The Romanesque Revival style building was designed by George Percy of the firm of Percy and Hamilton.[5] Thomas Day and Sons built the structure.[5] The firm of Percy & Hamilton designed roughly 200 buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the notable Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, and the Children's Playhouse or Children's Quarters (now known as the Koret Children's Playground) in Golden Gate Park.[2]

The Alameda City Hall is located across the street from the Alameda Free Library, another NHRP-listed site.[6]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Alameda City Hall". National Park Service. Retrieved September 19, 2023. With accompanying pictures
  3. "National Register #80000791: Alameda City Hall in Alameda, California". noehill.com. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  4. "Alameda City Hall Historical Marker". The Historical Marker Database (HMDB). Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  5. Dutcher, Greta; Rowland, Stephen (2005). Alameda. Arcadia Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-7385-3039-0.
  6. "Alameda's Carnegie building could become arts center". East Bay Times. 2019-02-19. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
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