{"nrhp_refnum":"83002248","name":"Carbondale City Hall and Courthouse","other_names":["Carbondale Municipal Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"One N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Carbondale","county":"Lackawanna County","state":"PA","lat":41.57237794100007,"lon":-75.50315331499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-01-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Law","Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Carbondale City Hall is a detached masonry building of brick and Pennsylvania bluestone in the Romanesque Revival style, combining a five-story corner tower, a three-story wing and a two-story wing, located in Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was erected in 1892-1894 to designs by Truman I. Lacey.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the building is an excellent local example of Romanesque Revival design, a style it describes as uncommon in northeastern Pennsylvania. It has served as the seat of city government and the city's most important public building since 1894. The two-story wing incorporates an 1859 courthouse and housed the Carbondale City Court, one of the earliest judicial bodies in the region.","narrative":"Carbondale City Hall is a brick and bluestone Romanesque Revival building in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, designed by local architect Truman I. Lacey and built in 1892-1894. It combines a five-story corner clock tower, a three-story wing with a massive bluestone entrance arch, and a two-story wing. That two-story wing incorporates a brick courthouse built in 1859 after a fire destroyed the city's earlier wooden courthouse, which Lacey remodeled and re-roofed rather than demolished. From 1859 to 1875 the wing housed the Carbondale City Court, a recorder's court with concurrent jurisdiction over several surrounding townships, abolished under the 1873 state constitution. Since 1894 the building has held the executive and legislative branches of city government. Its interior has a double-ramped iron stairway and 35 offices, many with moulded tin ceilings and oak woodwork. The nomination regards it as the most important public building in the city.","period_of_significance":"1892-1894","architect_builder":"Truman I. Lacey (architect)","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The document states that no alterations have been made to the building and that it appears as it did when erected in 1892-1894.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.448136-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/83002248.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002248/157de95ef5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002248/157de95ef5-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carbondale_PA_B_Hall_%26_courthouse_front.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carbondale_PA_B_Hall_%26_courthouse_front.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994901","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbondale_City_Hall_and_Courthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5038024"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lackawanna-county/carbondale-city-hall-and-courthouse-83002248/"}