Greenville City Hall (Greenville, Alabama)

Greenville City Hall
The building in November 2013
Location E. Commerce St., Greenville, Alabama
Coordinates 31°49′48″N 86°37′22″W / 31.83000°N 86.62278°W / 31.83000; -86.62278Coordinates: 31°49′48″N 86°37′22″W / 31.83000°N 86.62278°W / 31.83000; -86.62278
Area less than one acre
Built 1937 (1937)
Architect Moreland Griffith Smith
Architectural style Colonial Revival
MPS Greenville MRA
NRHP Reference # 86001807[1]
Added to NRHP November 4, 1986

Greenville City Hall in Greenville, Alabama is a historic city hall. The building was designed by Montgomery architect Moreland Griffith Smith, and built in 1936–37 by workers from the Works Progress Administration. The building is designed in a Colonial Revival style with Palladian influences, a popular style in the 1930s due to the recent restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. It was built on the site of a grammar school that was originally built in the 1890s, but burned in the early 1920s and again in 1927. The building is constructed of brick, with a full-height portico around the main entry. Each window on the first floor is topped with an ashlar keystone. The corners of the main block are adorned with stone quoins.[2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

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  1. 1 2 Staff (July 9, 2010). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
  2. Bailey, Michael; Tom Dolan; Shirley Qualls (January 1986). "Greenville City Hall" (PDF). Multiple Resources of Greenville, Butler County, Alabama. National Park Service. Archived from the original on April 20, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2014. See also: "Accompanying photos" (PDF). Archived from the original on April 20, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2014.


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