Description: This color image is a front exterior view of the ornate Victorian/Italianate house located in Warren, Ohio, that once was the residence of Henry Bishop Perkins, Sr. (1824-1902). A sign displayed above the center two windows on the second floor identifies the building as City Hall. Built in 1871, the Perkins House became Warren City Hall in 1934. Perkins, a civic, business, and political leader, was the son of Simon Perkins (1771-1844), an early settler in the Connecticut Western Reserve and an important economic and political leader in the region. During the 19th and early 20th century political figures such as U.S. Grant, James A. Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and William McKinley were visitors to this house. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06636
Subjects: City & town halls; Warren (Ohio); City halls--Ohio; Historic buildings--Ohio; Perkins, Simon, 1771-1844
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: The City Hall, located 90 West Broad Street, bounded by Gay, Front, and Broad Sts., and Riverside Drive, occupies, with its park, and entire block in the heart of the civic center. The 5-story structure of Indiana limestone, in Greco-Roman style, was designed by the Allied Architects Association of Columbus and cost $1,700,000. Three of the four sections of the building, which surround a court, were completed in 1928, and the fourth was dedicated in 1936. The hall houses various municipal departments and contains a city council chamber that originally sat more than 400 people. At night multi-colored lights played upon a fountain before the Broad Street entrance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F05_14_001
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; City halls
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The City Hall, located 90 West Broad Street, bounded by Gay, Front, and Broad Sts., and Riverside Drive, occupies, with its park, and entire block in the heart of the civic center. The 5-story structure of Indiana limestone, in Greco-Roman style, was designed by the Allied Architects Association of Columbus and cost $1, 700, 000. Three of the four sections of the building, which surround a court, were completed in 1928, and the fourth was dedicated in 1936. The hall houses various municipal departments and contains a city council chamber that originally sat more than 400 people. At night multi-colored lights played upon a fountain before the Broad Street entrance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F05_40_001
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; City halls
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This color image is a view of the front and a side exterior of Gustavus Town Hall, Gustavus Township, Ohio, ca. 1960s. The two-story wood frame structure has a distinctive cupola or bell tower. A sign that reads "Town Hall" hangs just below the cupola on the center front. The Town Hall was built in 1890 and fronts the southeast quadrant of Gustavus Township. The building is part of the Gustavus Center Historic District, National Register of Historic Places. It was added to the register in 1975. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06638
Subjects: City & town halls; City and town life; Local government; Public buildings
Places: Gustavus (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Stained Glass Window at Cin City Hall" This window depicts a preacher of some kind with a group of people in front of a wooden fort. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_051_001
Subjects: Stained glass windows; City halls
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Stained Glass Window at Cincinnati City Hall 1937" This stained glass window depicts three men building a log cabin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_052_001
Subjects: Stained glass windows; City halls
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The City Hall, located 90 West Broad Street, bounded by Gay, Front, and Broad Sts., and Riverside Drive, occupies, with its park, and entire block in the heart of the civic center. The 5-story structure of Indiana limestone, in Greco-Roman style, was designed by the Allied Architects Association of Columbus and cost $1,700,000. Three of the four sections of the building, which surround a court, were completed in 1928, and the fourth was dedicated in 1936. The hall houses various municipal departments and contains a city council chamber that originally sat more than 400 people. At night multi-colored lights played upon a fountain before the Broad Street entrance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F11_017_001
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Municipal buildings--United States; City halls--United States; Allied Architects Association (Columbus, Ohio)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Painesville City Hall, located at 7 Richmond St. This building was the first Lake County Courthouse and was used for that purpose until 1909. It is an example of Greek Revival architecture. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_256
Subjects: City halls--Ohio; Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; towers (building divisions); columns (architectural elements); Greek Revival
Places: Painesville (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the front and side facades of the Painesville City Hall, located at 7 Richmond St. This building was the first Lake County Courthouse and was used for that purpose until 1909. It is an example of Greek Revival architecture. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_255
Subjects: City halls--Ohio; Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; towers (building divisions); columns (architectural elements); Greek Revival
Places: Painesville (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows a plaque of the Painesville City Hall, located at 7 Richmond St. This building was the first Lake County Courthouse and was used for that purpose until 1909. It is an example of Greek Revival architecture. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_258
Subjects: City halls--Ohio; Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; towers (building divisions); columns (architectural elements); Greek Revival
Places: Painesville (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio);
 

Description: This image shows the front and side facades of the Painesville City Hall, located at 7 Richmond St. This building was the first Lake County Courthouse and was used for that purpose until 1909. It is an example of Greek Revival architecture. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_257
Subjects: City halls--Ohio; Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; towers (building divisions); columns (architectural elements); Greek Revival
Places: Painesville (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a section of Cleveland along Lake Erie and a part of Lakeside Avenue, from the Cuyahoga County Courthouse to Cleveland City Hall. Also visible are Cleveland Municipal Stadium, The Standard Building and The Mall, which used to feature an outdoor amphitheater. There are also several boats and docks along the waterfront. The Cuyahoga County Courthouse, located at 1 Lakeside Avenue, is a four-story pink granite structure, completed in 1912 by designed by architects Lehman and Schmidt in the French Classical Revival (Beaux-Arts) style. The Lakeside Avenue facade is decorated with figures in white Tennessee marble of men important in the development of English law; before the north entrance are bronze statues of John Marshall and Rufus Ray, and before the south of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Sculptors were Herbert Adams, Karl Bitter, and Daniel Chester French. Notable among the works of art in the building is a mural decoration, 'The Trial of Captain John Smith', by Charles Yardley Turner, which portrays a scene at Smith's trial for treason and mutiny in 1607. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It now houses the Cleveland Law Library Association. Cleveland City Hall, located at Lakeside Avenue and East 6th (Sixth) Street is a five-story steel-frame and concrete structure with Vermont granite exterior was designed by J. Milton Dyer in the Renaissance style in 1916 at a cost of $3 million dollars. It has arcaded ground story, a 2-story Tuscan colonnade, and a central entrance bay characteristic of the Beaux-Arts style and was the first such structure built for and owned by the city. The Council Chambers underwent major restorations in 1951 and 1977. In 1994, a major exterior renovation costing $2.9 million took place for the first time in the building's history. Cleveland Stadium, located at the foot of West 3rd (Third) Street, is built of gray-white brick and cost $3 million dollars to build. It opened July 3, 1931, for the heavyweight championship fight between Max Schmeling and Young Stribling. Designed by Walker and Weeks, the two-deck stadium had a seating capacity of 78, 189, which could be augmented by temporary seats to total 100, 000. Batteries of floodlights make night events possible. Sometimes called Cleveland Municipal Stadium and/or Lakefront Stadium, this multipurpose building was the home for first the Cleveland Rams, then Cleveland Browns (football) and the Cleveland Indians (baseball). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 and demolished to make way for new modern facilities in 1996 (Cleveland Browns Stadium). The Standard Building, located at 1370 Ontario Street in Cleveland, Ohio was originally called the ‘Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Cooperative National Bank Building and later the Standard Bank Building) is a high-rise office tower. Rising to a height of 282 feet, the Standard Building was the second tallest building in Cleveland when it was completed in 1925. Three of its four sides are clad in cream-colored terra cotta with a recurring starburst motif. The south face, which can be seen from Public Square, is unadorned and windowless. It was designed by Knox and Elliot architects, and was built for $7 million. It is owned by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. During the Great Depression, Standard Bank ran into financial difficulties and was sold by the BLE. It merged with two other Cleveland banks in 1930, forming Standard Trust Bank. This bank subsequently failed in 1931 and its assets were liquidated. From World War II through the 1960s, the bank lobby served as an indoctrination center for draftees. In the 1940s the building housed Cleveland College, a downtown campus of Western Reserve University, and was the last building of that campus. The 1903 Group Plan by Daniel Burnham, John Carrère, and Arnold W. Brunner as a vast public room flanked by the city's major civic and governmental buildings, all built in the neoclassical style. Many of those buildings along this long public park were built over the following three decades, including the Metzenbaum Courthouse (1910), Cuyahoga County Courthouse (1912), Cleveland City Hall (1916), Public Auditorium (1922), the Cleveland Public Library main building (1925), and the Cleveland Public Schools Board of Education building (1931). Other buildings include Key Tower, the Cuyahoga County Administration Building, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The Mall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_27_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; County courts--Ohio; Brunner, Arnold W. (Arnold William), 1857-1925; Burnham, D. H. (Daniel Hudson), 1846-1912; Carrère, John Merven, 1858-1911; Turner, Charles Yardley, 1850-; Adams, Herbert, 1858-1945; Bitter, Karl Theodore Francis, 1867-1915; French
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)