Davidson County Courthouse, also known as Metropolitan Courthouse, is an

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 ...

building built during 1936–37 in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and ...

. It was listed on the

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in 1987. It is an eight-story steelframe building sheathed with light beige Indiana

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and gray-green granite as trim at entrances. It was designed by Nashville architect Emmons H. Woolwine and Hirons and Dennison of New York, who won a design competition for the project. It was the first building with central air conditioning in Davidson County. with The building is also Nashville's City Hall and houses the offices of the

Mayor of Nashville The Mayor of Nashville is the chief executive of Nashville Tennessee's government. The current mayor is John Cooper, a member of the Democratic party. Each mayor serves a term of four years, with a limit of two terms, unless this is interrupt ...

and the

Nashville City Council The Metropolitan Council is the legislative body of the consolidated city-county government of Nashville, Tennessee and Davidson County. The Council has 40 members, 35 of which are district council representatives, and five of which are council ...

, therein. On May 30, 2020, the building was affected by fire started by rioters. Despite damage, the courthouse still reopened on June 1, 2020, with at least one suspected arsonist arrested.

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Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee County courthouses in Tennessee Government buildings completed in 1936 Art Deco architecture in Tennessee Buildings and structures in Nashville, Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Nashville, Tennessee {{DavidsonCountyTN-NRHP-stub