Richmond’s Old City Hall is an architectural and, to a degree, governmental landmark. The winning design was scrapped because the $300,000 cost was deemed too expensive. The city then accepted a more modest proposal from a different architect, only to reverse course again to build Elijah Myers’ Gothic design. The actual cost wound up more than $1 million over budget – more than four times the original estimate.
Despite calls for the building’s demolition, preservationists succeeded in making Old City Hall a landmark, and it was restored in the 1980s for use as an office building.
- Name: Old City Hall
- Location: 1001 East Broad Street
- Year Completed: 1894
- Architect: Elijah E. Myers
- Style: High Victorian Gothic, Gothic Revival
- Wikipedia: Old City Hall
- Virginia Department of Historic Resources: City Hall
- National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form
- Architecture Richmond: Old City Hall
- Google Map
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