Old Santa Ana City Hall (Santa Ana, California)

USA / California / Santa Ana / Santa Ana, California / North Main Street, 217
 town hall, Art Deco (architecture), historic landmark
217 North Main Street
Santa Ana, CA 92701

Old Santa Ana City Hall was constructed in 1935 at a cost of $126,000, funded by city bonds and a Works Progress Administration (WPA) grant. It was designed by architect W. Horace Austin of Long Beach, who had designed the rather similar Masonic Temple at Sycamore and Fifth Streets a few years earlier. A prominent Southern California architect, Austin’s credits also include the Bowers Museum and numerous Long Beach commissions (the old Long Beach City Hall [demolished], several schools, the original Buffum’s Department Store [demolished], the Long Beach YMCA [demolished], the Pacific Tower, the Press-Telegram Building, and the Long Beach Airport Terminal). Local contractors Ball and Honer constructed the building. This was the third City Hall to be built on the site, and replaced the 1904 building, which had been rendered unsafe after the 1933 earthquake. The City offices were located in this building until the 1980s with the exception of the City’s Public Works Agency, which vacated the building in 1999. In approximately 1982 it was converted into private offices and in 2001 it won an American Institute of Architects/Orange County design award for its interior adaptive reuse by Nestor/Gaffney Architects.

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Coordinates:   33°44'49"N   117°52'2"W

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  • Photo #2, from the Santa Ana Public Library collection, dates from the late 1930s and shows police officers standing in front of City Hall.
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