{"nrhp_refnum":"11000596","name":"Little Falls City Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"659 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Little Falls","county":"Herkimer County","state":"NY","lat":43.04651073800005,"lon":-74.85512532499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Little Falls City Hall is a two-and-a-half-story Neoclassical municipal building at 659 East Main Street, Little Falls, New York, designed by William Neil Smith of New York City and built 1916-1918.","why_significant":"The text describes a highly ornamented Neoclassical civic building clad in glazed white terra-cotta, funded in large part by a gift from local citizen David H. Burrell. Its construction involved prolonged controversy over funding, site, architect and contractors, and it has housed city government since 1918. The criteria and period are not legible in the excerpt.","narrative":"Little Falls City Hall is a steel-framed, two-and-a-half-story civic building at the corner of East Main and Williams Streets, built between 1916 and 1918 to designs by New York architect William Neil Smith. Its walls are faced in glazed white terra-cotta with classical detail, including a projecting central pavilion with Ionic pilasters, a pediment, carved ancone keystones and a domed lantern topped with a copper spire. A slate mansard roof with pedimented dormers crowns the main block, while a utilitarian brick ell at the rear holds the fire department, jail and a fire observation tower. Inside, a multi-level lobby features terrazzo floors, coffered ceilings, polished marble columns and a curved marble staircase. The building was made possible largely by a donation from local citizen David H. Burrell, though disputes over cost, site selection, supervision and contractors delayed the work for years. It remains the seat of city government, a well-preserved example of Neoclassical municipal design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect William Neil Smith (New York City); contractors Geo. B. Willis & Co., Inc. (New York City) and Hallinan & Snyder (Little Falls)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Neoclassical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as City Hall; the building also houses the fire department and city jail. Some original windows have been replaced with aluminum versions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.406082-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11000596.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000596/bf308c1495-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000596/bf308c1495-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Arjharris","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:City_Hall,_Little_Falls,_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Arjharris</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:City_Hall,_Little_Falls,_NY.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318158","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Falls_City_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6649970"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/herkimer-county/little-falls-city-hall-11000596/"}