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Located in Downtown Phoenix, the 20-floor, 368-foot (112-meter) [2] building was designed by architectural firm Langdon Wilson. Construction began in 1992 and was completed in 1994. [ 3 ] It replaced the former city hall, now known as Old City Hall . [ 3 ]
The Phoenix Police Museum is located on 2nd Avenue and Jefferson Street, on the 1st floor of the Historic Phoenix City Hall. The museum highlights the history of the Phoenix Police Department from 1881, when Henry Garfias, was elected the first city marshal to the present.
Historic Old Phoenix City Hall built in 1928 and located at 17 S. Second Avenue. This structure served as the Phoenix's City Hall until 1994 when the a new building was completed to serve as such. Designated as a landmark with Historic Preservation-Landmark (HP-L) overlay zoning. Listed in the Phoenix Historic Property Register.
The Phoenix Municipal Building replaced the city hall in the County Courthouse (right) With Phoenix and Maricopa County both continuing with explosive growth after World War II, the joint city-county building, which represented a vastly different era in state history, now was as inadequate as the structures it had replaced.
The Phoenix Historic Property Register is the official listing of the historic and prehistoric properties in the city of Phoenix, the capital and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona. [1] The city's register includes most or all places in Phoenix listed on the National Register of Historic Places and many more of local significance.
In the late 1940s the city began exploring the possibility of building a new city hall. In April 1957 $4.3 Million in Bonds was approved by voters to build a new city hall. The City of Phoenix selected the local architecture firms of Ralph Haver & Associates and Edward L. Varney Associates to design the new complex. Haver and Varney's design ...
Earlier in 1888 the city offices were moved into the new City Hall, at Washington and Central (later the site of the city bus terminal, until Central Station was built in the 1990s). [15] When the territorial capital was moved from Prescott to Phoenix in 1889 the temporary territorial offices were also located in City Hall. [54]
The city purchases the Phoenix Transit System from American Transit, who agrees to continue to manage the operation. [35] The city adopts the Central Phoenix Plan in an attempt to develop the Central Avenue corridor. [65] The first Fiesta Bowl is played. [50] 1972 Phoenix Symphony Hall opens. Chase Tower built. Salt River floods several times ...