Buffalo City Hall (Buffalo, New York) | NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, interesting place, town hall, Art Deco (architecture), local government, 1932_construction

 NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, interesting place, town hall, Art Deco (architecture), local government, 1932_construction

Buffalo City Hall is the seat for local government in the City of Buffalo, New York. Designed by Dietel Wade & Jones, City Hall's ground breaking took place on September 16th, 1929 and was completed on November 10th, 1931. Officially dedicated in July 1932, the 32-story Art Deco style office building rises 398ft above street level and offers 566,313 square feet of usable office space on 26 floors.

Reigning as the tallest building in Buffalo from its completion date until 1970, City Hall remains one of the largest and tallest municipal buildings in the United States of America. Costing a then-unheard-of sum $6,851,546.85 for a civic building, City Hall has impressive dimensions with extensive use of friezes and typical Art-Deco finework by William D.L. Dodge.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, City Hall is open to the public during normal business hours. The building's observation deck is open for visitors and tourists free of charge and recently underwent an extensive refurbishment.

www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/
usmodernist.org/AM/AM-1932-06.pdf