City Hall - Lincoln, Nebraska
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BruceS
N 40° 48.829 W 096° 42.463
14T E 693333 N 4520617
Former U.S. Post Office and Courthouse then City Hall, now housing city agencies located on west side of Lincoln.
Waymark Code: WMR6K
Location: Nebraska, United States
Date Posted: 09/23/2006
Views: 91
"In 1874 construction began on Lincoln's first U.S. Post Office and
Courthouse on a block originally intended as a market square. The building was
completed by 1879 at a cost of about. $200,000. Alfred B. Mullet, supervising
architect of the U.S. Treasury and his successor, William Appleton Potter,
prepared the design. The building is of brick, faced with Nebraska limestone,
and blends Gothic Revival and French Second Empire styles.
In 1906, when a new post office and courthouse was completed on the northeast
corner of this block, the federal government sold the old building to the city
for $50,000. It served as Lincoln's city hall until 1969, when a new county-city
building was occupied. Deed provisions required Old City Hall to remain in
municipal use or it would revert to federal ownership.
In 1969 Old City Hall was one of the first Lincoln buildings listed in the
National Register of Historic Places. The Lincoln/Lancaster County Historical
Society advocated its preservation, and federal, city, and community support
accomplished its renovation. It continues to house city and community agencies."
~ text of historical marker on site.