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Old Medan City Hall is a building located on Jalan Balai Kota (City Hall Street),
Medan Medan (; English: ) is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra, as well as a regional hub and financial centre of Sumatra. According to the National Development Planning Agency, Medan is one of the four main ...
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North Sumatra North Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Utara) is a province of Indonesia located on the northern part of the island of Sumatra. Its capital and largest city is Medan. North Sumatra is Indonesia's fourth most populous province after West Java, East Java and ...
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Description

The Old Medan City Hall was built in 1908 during the Dutch colonial period. The building was designed by C. Boon, an architect for the Deli Group. The City Hall is kilometre zero in Medan, and was originally built for the
Bank of Java The Bank of Java (DJB, for ) was a note-issuing bank in the Dutch East Indies, founded in 1828 and nationalized in 1951 by the government of Indonesia to become the newly independent country’s central bank, later renamed Bank Indonesia. For m ...
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Bank Indonesia Bank Indonesia (BI) is the central bank of the Republic of Indonesia. It replaced in 1953 the Bank of Java ( nl, De Javasche Bank, DJB), which had been created in 1828 to serve the financial needs of the Dutch East Indies. History Bank of Ja ...
), but was instead purchased by the City Council of Medan. Its bell was donated in 1913 from the
Tjong A Fie Mansion Tjong A Fie Mansion () is a two-story mansion in Medan, North Sumatra, built by Tjong A Fie (1860–1921) a Hakka merchant who came to own much of the land in Medan through his plantations, later becoming 'Majoor der Chineezen' (leader of t ...
. Medan City Hall is now owned and managed by the ''Grand CityHall Hotel'' hotel-office-retail complex, situated just behind it.


Gallery

File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Het gemeentehuis en het kantoor van de Javasche Bank TMnr 10015457.jpg, Old City Hall and the
Bank of Java The Bank of Java (DJB, for ) was a note-issuing bank in the Dutch East Indies, founded in 1828 and nationalized in 1951 by the government of Indonesia to become the newly independent country’s central bank, later renamed Bank Indonesia. For m ...
(now Bank Indonesia) File:COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Het_gemeentehuis_oftewel_de_Balai_Kota_TMnr_60026559.jpg, Medan City Hall, circa 1950


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Colonial architecture of Indonesia The colonial architecture of Indonesia refers to the buildings that were created across Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period, during that time, this region was known as the Dutch East Indies. These types of colonial era structures are more ...
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List of colonial buildings in Medan Colonial buildings in Medan include those that were constructed there during the colonial period of Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Following the establishment of the Deli Company in 1869, the city was transformed rapidly from a small kamp ...
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Medan Post Office The Medan Post and Telegraph Office (Indonesian: Kantor Pos Medan) is a historic building in Medan, Indonesia. It was designed by Ir. S. Snuyf from Burgelijke Openbare Werken (BOW) and opened in 1911. Located in downtown Medan, several other imp ...
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