The Boca Raton Old City Hall (labeled as "Town Hall" on signs) is a historic site in

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, Florida, United States. It is located at 71 North Federal Highway. The former city hall now houses the Boca Raton Welcome Center and the Boca Raton History Museum. On October 16, 1980, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The original design was by Addison Mizner. On April 18, 2012, the

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's Florida Chapter placed it on its list of ''Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places'' as Boca Raton Town Hall. The building housed Boca Raton's police station, fire department, and library. The bay for the fire engine is currently (2018) the gift shop.

Boca Raton History Museum

The Boca Raton History Museum is located in downtown

Boca Raton, Florida Boca Raton ( ; es, Boca Ratón, link=no, ) is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It was first incorporated on August 2, 1924, as "Bocaratone," and then incorporated as "Boca Raton" in 1925. The population was 97,422 in the ...

. Sponsored by the Boca Raton Historical Society, whose offices and library are located there, it is also the welcome center for Boca Raton. The building it is housed in was Boca Raton's original

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, which began as a commission in 1926 to well-known architect Addison Mizner, designated by the Boca Raton Council as town planner; some of his elegant details have been preserved, together with antiques, some of them Spanish, from his collection. (Because of Mizner's bankruptcy later that year, the building was completed by architect William E. Alsmeyer.) It also housed Boca's first fire bay ( fire station), which now houses the museum's gift shop, Boca Raton's police station, and its first library. A small second floor, not currently (2016) open to the public, provided housing for the fire chief. The

Boca Express Train Museum The Boca Express Train Museum, operated by the Boca Raton Historical Society, is housed in a restored 1930 Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) train station in Boca Raton, Florida. designed by Chester G. Henninger, built for Clarence H. Geist. It i ...

, a few blocks away, is also operated by the Historical Society.

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Official site

Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
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Palm Beach County listings
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Palm Beach County markers
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Boca Raton Old City Hall
* Three-dimensional tour of Boca Raton History Museum https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=2MXBdWMdWrk (retrieved November 1, 2016). * Boca Raton Historical Museum Web site: http://bocahistory.org (retrieved November 1, 2016). National Register of Historic Places in Palm Beach County, Florida City and town halls in Florida Former seats of local government Addison Mizner buildings City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida {{PalmBeachCountyFL-NRHP-stub