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Charlevoix City Hall

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1939, G. Harold Thompson; mid-1980s addition; 2005 rehabilitation, Jim Nichols of Fuller-Nichols. 210 State St.
  • (Photograph by Kathryn Bishop Eckert)
  • (Photograph by Kathryn Bishop Eckert)

Executed in yellowish-brownish Indiana sandstone, the Moderne city hall funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA) is a flat roofed, two-story version of the upright and wing form of scheme. Stylized machine-carved rectangles ornament panels between upper- and lower-story windows, and the recessed entrance telescopes to the door. Thompson (b. 1903), a native of Cheboygan who was trained at Chicago Technical College and worked in Chicago as a draftsman and supervising architect, designed the city hall and Muskegon Construction built it.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Kathryn Bishop Eckert
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What's Nearby

“Dwarf” or “Mushroom Houses”
Charlevoix Public Library (Charlevoix Elementary School)
Chicago Club
Belvedere Club
Charlevoix Historical Society Depot Museum (Charlevoix Depot of the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad)

Citation

Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Charlevoix City Hall", [Charlevoix, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-CX1.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Michigan

Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 417-417.

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