Binghamton City Hall is a historic

city hall In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses ...

located at

Binghamton Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the conflue ...

Broome County, New York Broome County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 United States census, the county had a population of 198,683. Its county seat is Binghamton. The county was named for John Broome, the state's lieutenant governor when Br ...

. The building was designed by Ingle & Almirall in the

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. It is a five-story masonry structure with basement. The city hall was built in 1897–1898. It features a

mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The ...

and prominent

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. ''See also:'' The city hall is located within the boundaries of the Court Street Historic District. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1971. In 1972 the city government moved to Government Plaza. After sitting vacant for a decade, The building was converted to a hotel, and in 2020 to apartments.Jeff Platsky,
Binghamton's old city hall targeted for apartments
" presconnects, March 9, 2020. Accessed October 24, 2022.

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City Of Binghamton, New York
Buildings and structures in Binghamton, New York Historic district contributing properties in New York (state) Government buildings completed in 1897 City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Historic American Buildings Survey in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Broome County, New York History of Broome County, New York Second Empire architecture in New York (state) {{BroomeCountyNY-NRHP-stub