English: Title: Huntington City Hall, Huntington, West Virginia
Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; In 1911, when the city determined to erect a new municipal buiding, it purchased a tract of land on the northeast corner of 5th Avenue as the site, paying the then-unheard-of sum of $46,000 for it. The city retained Verus T. Ritter, one of Huntington's most successful architects, to design it. Completed in 1915, the Neo-Classical-style building is faced with cream-colored brick with terra-cotta details, supplied by the Maryland Terra-cotta Company of Baltimore; limestone quarried in Bedford, Indiana, and granite from Mt. Airy, North Carolina.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.