File:East (rear) and south elevations - Alameda City Hall, 2329 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda, Alameda County, CA HABS CAL,1-ALAM,1-3.tif

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East (rear) and south elevations - Alameda City Hall, 2329 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda, Alameda County, CA
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Percy, George W
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East (rear) and south elevations - Alameda City Hall, 2329 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda, Alameda County, CA
Depicted place California; Alameda County; Alameda
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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HABS CAL,1-ALAM,1-3
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  • Significance: The Alameda City Hall is the major civic landmark remaining from the city's initial period of economic prosperity created by the expansion of the railroad network in the closing decades of the 19th century. Constructed a little over twenty years after the City received its charter in 1872, the building summed up the civic aspirations of the Alameda citizenry. Because the City of Alameda was the first in California and the second in the United States to operate its own power plant, opened in 1886, the City Hall had the benefit of incandescent lighting, a significant luxury. Monumentally conceived by George Percy of the firm Percy and Hamilton, the design reflects the current fashion for the Romanesque Revival Style initiated in this country by Henry Hobson Richardson and used in his famous Allegheny County Courthouse design of 1884-1890. The Alameda City Hall modestly echoes that building in its general format. The firm of Percy & Hamilton designed about 200 buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area including the notable Stanford University Art Museum and the Children's Playhouse in Golden Gate Park.
  • Survey number: HABS CA-415
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1896 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1906 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1937 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca1296.photos.010728p
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Object location37° 45′ 55.01″ N, 122° 14′ 26.02″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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