Johnstown City Hall, Northeast corner of Main & Market Streets, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

Significance: The present city hall was built during a period of great optimism in Johnstown. The previous building on the site, erected in 1872, had been used as a market house, police station, and municipal building. It was destroyed in the 1889 flood; when faced with the task of building a new city hall, the city fathers wanted to be sure that the new one symbolized what they believed was the modern, progressive nature of Johnstown. To that end, Charles Robinson of Altoona designed a Richardsonian Romanesque structure, which at the time was the style of choice in America for monumental civic buildings.
Survey number: HABS PA-5387
Building/structure dates: 1900- 1902 Initial Construction