Footscray Town Hall, also known as ''Maribyrnong Town Hall'' since council amalgamations in the 1990s, is a civic building located on Napier Street in Footscray, a suburb of

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. The hall was built in 1936 to the design of architect

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in the

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style. It replaced the previous town hall on the same site, which was demolished in 1935. The building is now used as the main council chambers of the City of Maribyrnong.

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