{"nrhp_refnum":"82001233","name":"Municipal Building","other_names":["Old City Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"238-242 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oneonta","county":"Otsego County","state":"NY","lat":42.45459336400006,"lon":-75.06090082199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Municipal Building (also called Old City Hall) at 238-242 Main Street in Oneonta, Otsego County, New York, is a three-story masonry building with a painted brick and white terra cotta facade. It was designed by architect Linn Kinne and dated 1906, with completion in 1908.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is historically significant as the seat of Oneonta's municipal government from 1906 to 1980, covering politics, administration and public safety. It is also architecturally significant as a small-scale but colorful example of Beaux-Arts style that reflects the pride and prosperity of a railroad and college town in the early twentieth century.","narrative":"Oneonta's old Municipal Building, at 238-242 Main Street, is a three-story masonry structure faced in white terra cotta and red-painted brick, with a central Ionic pavilion over the upper floors. Architect Linn Kinne designed it after a May 1906 fire destroyed nearby blocks and the old wooden village hall and firehouse. Village trustees ordered the old hall demolished and committed $50,000 to a new structure, completed in 1908. It housed city government, administration and the fire department until 1980, and became the seat of the new city government when Oneonta incorporated in 1909. The design is a modest but colorful example of Beaux-Arts style. Alterations include enlarged fire-garage doors in 1948, steel beams added in 1961, a Neocolonial clock tower in 1978, and aluminum storm windows and flashing in 1979. The interior remains simple, with oak moldings and matchboard wainscoting. The city moved its offices to the Old Post Office in 1980 and sought new uses for the building.","period_of_significance":"1906","architect_builder":"Linn Kinne, Architect","architectural_style":"Beaux-Arts","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Oneonta and marked occupied; city offices moved to the Old Post Office in 1980, and the city was seeking development ideas for the building.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.440352-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001233.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001233/631d3da0d8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001233/631d3da0d8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Kenneth C. Zirkel","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Municipal_Building_in_Oneonta,_New_York.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenneth C. Zirkel</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Municipal_Building_in_Oneonta,_New_York.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03001245","name":"Oneonta Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/oneonta-downtown-historic-district-03001245/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320964","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_Building_(Oneonta,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6936200"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/otsego-county/municipal-building-82001233/"}