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Winston Salem City Hall

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
01001130

Added to NRHP
  
20 October 2001

Built
  
1926 (1926)

Opened
  
1926

Winston-Salem City Hall httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
101 S. Main St., Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Architectural style
  
Renaissance Revival architecture

Similar
  
Bethabara Historic District, Bethabara Moravian Church, Bolton Park, Rupert Bell Community Center, SciWorks

Winston-Salem City Hall is a historic city hall located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was designed by the noted architectural firm Northup and O'Brien and built in 1926. It is a three-story, "U"-shaped Renaissance Revival building. It is a brick building with a first floor of rusticated stone. It has a flat roof with a limestone cornice and balustrade with shaped balusters. The Salem town offices were housed in the Salem Town Hall until consolidation in 1912. The building was renovated in 2000.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

History

The home of D. H. Starbuck and his family originally stood on the site of the current structure.

References

Winston-Salem City Hall Wikipedia