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- The building was dedicated in July 1932.
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City Hall on James Street was completed in December of 1911. The Elizabeth A. Horton Memorial Hospital on Prospect Avenue opened March 12, 1929, and Central Fire House on East Main Street was completed in May of the same year replacing a smaller truck house that had been built in 1873. The Paramount Theatre on South Street opened June 12, 1930.
- The Old Old City Hall
- Building A Temple For Government
- A Clock to Tick Off The Centuries
- Statues Everywhere
- A Masterpiece Is Unveiled
- The Building Many Loved to Hate
- Planning A New City Hall
- A Mustard-Yellow Municipal Death Trap
- A Stay of Execution
- The Executioner
Detroit was still a small but growing city of only 12.75 square miles in the late 1850s when plans were made to build a majestic landmark where the future of a booming, sprawling metropolis would be born. The city’s government was operating out of a small structure on the east side of Campus Martius then. What would become the city’s old Old City H...
Old City Hall was built on a site that saw much turnover. First serving as part of a military reservation, then as the home of the Association for the Promotion of Female Education, which was turned into a state armory, then a state office building. It was then handed over to the University of Michigan in May 1842 on a 999-year lease, back when the...
One of the nation's top clockmakers, W.A. Hendrie of Chicago, created the clock especially for Detroit and regarded it as his masterpiece. Its four dials – each 8 feet 3 inches in diameter and made in Glasgow, Scotland – were illuminated at night so citizens all over downtown could see the time. (Remember, the clock tower was the highest point in t...
The clock tower featured four, 14-foot sandstone maidens at the base of the cupola that peered down on Campus Martius from 110 feet up. The quartet represented the civic virtues of Art, Commerce, Industry and Justice. Commerce held a mercurial staff, Justice the scales and Industry tools and gears of the trade. The maidens, weighing 10 tons each, w...
The building’s dedication ceremony was held July 4, 1871, and overseen by Mayor William W. Wheaton. It was a rainy affair that began at 7 a.m. with the ringing of the bell under the direction of bell ringer George Doty. The day was punctuated with speeches, a gun salute and rockets and Roman candles set off from the building’s clock tower. There wa...
Despite such praise, City Hall was the target of many demolition attempts over its 90-year life. Time and again, the veritable landmark found several saviors, most often in Common Council President (and later as mayor) John C. Lodge. One of the first opponents of Old City Hall was Pingree, revered by many as the city’s best mayor. He was mayor from...
It seemed nearly every week, a story appeared in one of Detroit’s daily newspapers about a new plan to replace Old City Hall. Among them in 1935-36: Building an eight-story City Halland office building on the then-current site at a cost of $3 million ($47.4 million). This was the plan suggested by a committee formed by Mayor Couzens. Erecting a bui...
The problem was brought by new ordinances and fire safety regulations. Having been built more than half a century earlier, City Hall did not meet fire escape or emergency exit requirements and its open shafts and stairwells could become dangerous flues for smoke. In what became an annual tradition, the Department of Buildings and Safety Engineering...
The City-County Building, now known as the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, would finally doom City Hall. When it was made clear that the city government had outgrown Old City Hall, the city built the skyscraper at a cost of $26 million (about $204.7 million today). The Detroit Common Council held its 4,370th and final weekly formal session in Ol...
After Cobo died, those who wanted to see City Hall devoured by bulldozers started moving with the force of a steamroller. As Common Council president, Louis C. Miriani rose to succeed Cobo. Where Mayor Lodge had been Old City Hall’s defender, Mayor Miriani was its executioner. Miriani and other city officials had long held that the building was hol...
Sep 13, 2019 · It might be the most ironclad law of politics in 2019. Democrats win cities—period. They win in big cities, like New York, and small cities, like Ames, Iowa; in old cities, like Boston, and new ...
Middletown City Hall 16 James Street Middletown, NY 10940 Phone: 845-346-4100 Hours: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Quick Links. Monitor Water Use. Mayor and Council. Boards and ...
Middletown earned a place in our national history through its association with major historical figures in both the colonial and Civil War eras. Between 1794 and 1797, Major Isaac Hite, Jr. and his wife, Nelly Conway Madison (sister of President James Madison), built a large limestone mansion one mile southwest of Middletown.
Sep 12, 2023 · The city of Middletown has identified the Citizens Bank corporate offices at 225-243 Main St. as a relocation site for aging City Hall. Parking would be at the Middlesex Corporate Center garage ...
History 1664-Present. Officially founded in 1664 as one of the seats of colonial America, Middletown was settled by English who migrated from western Long Island and New England, beginning at the 1665 proclamation of the Monmouth Patent by royal governor Richard Nicholls. This grant, issued to 12 Britons, contained several provisions governing ...
