{"nrhp_refnum":"76001259","name":"Syracuse City Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"233 E. Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Syracuse","county":"Onondaga County","state":"NY","lat":43.050129232000074,"lon":-76.14889084799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-08-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Syracuse City Hall is a massive neo-Romanesque municipal building at 233 East Washington Street in Syracuse, New York, built 1889-93 of rock-faced Onondaga limestone to designs by architect Charles Erastus Colton.","why_significant":"It was the first building in Syracuse designed entirely for municipal government. It is a significant example of Richardsonian neo-Romanesque civic architecture and reflects the city's late 19th century prosperity. It also retains a high degree of interior and exterior integrity.","narrative":"Syracuse City Hall occupies a full block at 233 East Washington Street, in one of the city's oldest business districts. Built between 1889 and 1893 from plans by local architect Charles Erastus Colton, it was the first building in Syracuse designed entirely for municipal government. Hughes Brothers of Syracuse built it with a low bid of $238,750. The structure is faced in rock-faced Onondaga limestone and shows the Richardsonian Romanesque style through its heavy masonry, conical-roofed corner towers, many gables and a 165-foot bell tower at the northeast corner. It replaced the old Market Hall, which had housed city government since the 1840s. The building was originally arranged with city offices, council chambers and an assembly room, plus a police court, station house and jail. Police functions moved out around 1905, and the assembly room was divided into two floors in 1919. Original wainscotting, hardware, stairways and lighting fixtures survive, giving the building a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":"1889-93","architect_builder":"Charles Erastus Colton (architect); Hughes Brothers of Syracuse (builder)","architectural_style":"Neo-Romanesque, Richardsonian tradition","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as publicly owned by the City of Syracuse, occupied and in government use at the time of nomination; condition marked fair.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.388236-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/76001259.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001259/e23cfe47d1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001259/e23cfe47d1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"ZeWrestler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syracuse_City_Hall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">ZeWrestler</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syracuse_City_Hall.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320463","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse_City_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7663022"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/onondaga-county/syracuse-city-hall-76001259/"}