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Old Norfolk City Hall

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Built
  
1898 (1898)-1900

NRHP Reference #
  
81000674

Designated VLR
  
July 21, 1981

Area
  
2,000 m²

Added to NRHP
  
29 October 1981

Architectural style
  
Neo-Palladian Revival

VLR #
  
122-0082

Opened
  
1900

Architecture firm
  
Wyatt & Nolting

Old Norfolk City Hall

Location
  
235 E. Plume St., Norfolk, Virginia

Similar
  
Virginia Zoological Park, Town Point Park, Naval Station Norfolk, Attucks Theatre, Harrison Opera House

Old Norfolk City Hall, also known as the U.S. Post Office and Courts Building , is a historic city hall located at Norfolk, Virginia. It was built in 1898-1900, and is a three-story faced with rusticated stone and yellow brick in a Neo-Palladian Revival style. It features a central pedimented engaged portico with Corinthian order pilasters that contains the main entrance. The building housed a post office and Federal courts until they moved to the Walter E. Hoffman United States Courthouse about 1935. Title to the building was transferred from the U.S. government to the city of Norfolk in 1937, when it was converted into a city hall. The building is under renovation and scheduled to reopen as the main branch of the Norfolk Public Library in 2014.

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

References

Old Norfolk City Hall Wikipedia