Old Norfolk City Hall Explained

Old Norfolk City Hall
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:July 21, 1981[1]
Designated Other1 Number:122-0082
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:235 E. Plume St.,
Norfolk, Virginia
Coordinates:36.8467°N -76.2903°W
Built:–1900
Architect:Wyatt & Nolting
Architecture:Neo-Palladian Revival
Added:October 29, 1981
Refnum:81000674

Old Norfolk City Hall, also known as the Seaboard Building and U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, is a historic city hall located at Norfolk, Virginia. It was built in 1898–1900, and is a three-story faced with rusticated stone and yellow brick in a Neo-Palladian Revival style. It features a central pedimented engaged portico with Corinthian order pilasters that contains the main entrance. The building housed a post office and Federal courts until they moved to the Walter E. Hoffman United States Courthouse about 1935. Title to the building was transferred from the U.S. government to the city of Norfolk in 1937, when it was converted into a city hall.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. In 2009, it became Norfolk's main library.[3] In 2014, the library was expanded to become the Slover Branch/Downtown Norfolk Public Library; the expansion included construction of a new atrium connecting the former city hall with the neighboring Selden Arcade.[4] The library is named in honor of Samuel L. Slover, former mayor of Norfolk.[5]

External links

3 photo, 19 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 19 March 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Old Norfolk City Hall. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff . July 1981. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
  3. Web site: Norfolk library's new home is the main attraction. The Virginian-Pilot. Messina. Debbie. March 12, 2009. January 25, 2018.
  4. Web site: Slover Library. Architect Magazine. December 11, 2014. January 25, 2018.
  5. Web site: History of Slover. Slover Library. January 25, 2018.