The City Hall in East Liverpool, Ohio is part of the East Liverpool Central Business District multiple resource area (MRA). It was added to 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 ...

on November 14, 1985. East Liverpool's

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 ...

was built in 1934 as a project of the

Civil Works Administration The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. The jobs were ...

. Stylistically, the building is an example of

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

architecture that was prominent in the 1930s. The two-story structure is constructed with

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...

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City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio Art Deco architecture in Ohio Government buildings completed in 1934 Buildings and structures in Columbiana County, Ohio National Register of Historic Places in Columbiana County, Ohio East Liverpool, Ohio 1934 establishments in Ohio {{ColumbianaCountyOH-NRHP-stub