{"nrhp_refnum":"85001909","name":"LaSalle City Building","other_names":["LaSalle City Hall","Fire Station No. 1"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"745 2nd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"LaSalle","county":"LaSalle County","state":"IL","lat":41.32953700000007,"lon":-89.09469879499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-08-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A combined city hall and fire station at 745 Second St. in LaSalle, Illinois, built in 1906 as a single structure and designed by architect Victor Andre Matteson. It has a two-and-one-half-story City Hall section and an attached two-story Fire Station No. 1.","why_significant":"The building reflects the Progressive-era trend of consolidating city departments under one roof. It was a community undertaking, financed by bonds sold to local citizens and pushed forward by Mayor Walter A. Panneck, and it became a symbol of the city. It also remains the center of city services and public gathering.","narrative":"Completed in 1906, the LaSalle City Building at 745 Second Street combines the city hall and Fire Station No. 1 in one structure. The City Hall section is a symmetrical, two-and-one-half-story red brick building with Bedford stone trim, a steep hip roof, pilasters, arched openings and a council chamber on the third floor. The attached fire station has arched apparatus doors, a hose-drying tower and a few reminders of the horse-drawn era, such as harness hooks and a hayloft door. Architect Victor Andre Matteson, known for public buildings, designed it. The building was meant to replace a derelict structure on the same site and to bring city departments together, in keeping with Progressive-era ideas of centralized management. Mayor Walter A. Panneck drove the project, and about 420 bonds were sold to local residents to cover the $45,000 cost. Dedicated on January 1, 1907, it continues to serve as the center of city government.","period_of_significance":"1906-07","architect_builder":"Victor Andre Matteson (architect)","architectural_style":"Eclectic, with French Revival and Colonial Revival elements and a Beaux Arts approach to scale","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as city hall and fire station; the first floor has been restored, the third-floor council chamber is being restored, and much of the second floor office space is unused.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.789908-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/8934/28893427/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/85001909.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001909/0384e4b35c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001909/0384e4b35c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LaSalleIL_CityBuilding.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</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:LaSalleIL_CityBuilding.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100001926","name":"LaSalle Downtown Commercial District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/lasalle-downtown-commercial-district-100001926/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893427","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaSalle_City_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16893987"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lasalle-county/lasalle-city-building-85001909/"}