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Historic 1931 City Hall building in Wharton, Texas. The former municipal building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as part of the Wharton County Courthouse Historic Commercial District (NRHP District No. 91001624).
The old Fenton Town Hall, bequeathed to the people of the town by the philanthropist William Meath Baker sitting proudly in Albert Square, between Gimson Street and Baker Street, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent.
This is the only Town Hall or former Town Hall of the Stoke-on-Trent towns not to be listed?
Originally built in 1889 as part of a development, including the surrounding streets and built by Robert Scrivener and Sons, this building became the scene of a local community demonstration including an organised sit-in in November 2014.
The Town Hall was passed on to the Ministry of Justice by the local council (free of charge) and was used as a Magistrates Court for many years. However, when the court was closed the Ministry put the building up for sale.
The building contains a large Minton Tile war memorial to 498 men from Fenton who lost their lives during the First World War. Due to the size and weight of this memorial it is thought that would be particularly difficult to relocate, and as the building does not have listed status the local community were worried about the future of both the building and its memorial.
Fenton Community Association and Urban Vision put forward plans to buy the building but were unable to raise the £500,000.00 price tag. It seeems that salvation has been found though. The great-grandson of the altruistic William Meath Baker, Justin Meath Baker has been instrumental in the fight to buy the building, after fighting for the buildings future with the various local community groups. This came to pass in 2015 when the building was aquired by Baker & Co with the intention of providing a community space for use into the future.
One point of note regarding the building is that it originally had a central spire which was dismantled after being deemed unsafe.
William Meath Baker owned the nearby pottery works, now operated by James Kent Ltd. He was responsible for much of the development of the town building housing for his pottery workers which still stand today.
I stopped liking it so much when it switched to being the headquarters of the Raleigh Police Department. But the cops moved out in 2010 so now we can stand here and freely admire the attractive building once again, a happy ending. A palm tree.
I bet people used to smoke tobacco on the recessed balcony. Maybe some of them smoked Raleighs.
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In downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 4th, 2023, the former Raleigh Municipal Building (built 1959-1960, designed by G. Milton Small) at the northwest corner of South McDowell Street (U.S. routes 70 and 401 and North Carolina Highway 50) and West Hargett Street, part of the Avery C. Upchurch Municipal Complex.
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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• Raleigh Police Department (Q17109948)
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• City halls—North Carolina (sh2014002446)
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Union List of Artist Names IDs:
• Small, G. Milton (American architect, 1917-1992) (500232665)
Historic 1931 City Hall building in Wharton, Texas. The former municipal building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as part of the Wharton County Courthouse Historic Commercial District (NRHP District No. 91001624).
Historic 1931 City Hall building in Wharton, Texas. The former municipal building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as part of the Wharton County Courthouse Historic Commercial District (NRHP District No. 91001624).
Historic 1931 City Hall building in Wharton, Texas. The former municipal building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as part of the Wharton County Courthouse Historic Commercial District (NRHP District No. 91001624).
Historical marker for the City of Wharton
The town of Wharton was founded as the seat of Wharton County in April 1846. Land for a courthouse, named Monterey Square, was given from the land grant of William Kincheloe, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists who settled in this area in 1822. The townsite was surveyed by Virgel Stewart and William J. E. Heard, and the rich farmland attracted many settlers. The advent of railroads and irrigation brought increased settlement to the town, which remains a center of agricultural, educational, industrial, and medical services for a large area.
Civic building fallen on hard times.
Formerly Poplar Borough Council.
Note the beautiful mosaic work.
LR3558