Old Indianapolis City Hall, formerly known as the Indiana State Museum, is a historic

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located at

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. It was built in 1909–1910, and is a four-story,

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style brick building sheathed in Indiana

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. It measures 188 feet by 133 feet. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs It was listed on the

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in 1974.

History

City Hall was opened in 1910 and was used for that purpose until 1962, when city offices moved to the City-County Building. The building housed the

Indiana State Museum The Indiana State Museum is a museum located in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The museum houses exhibits on the science, art, culture, and history of Indiana from prehistoric times to the present day. History The original colle ...

from 1966 to 2001. Later, when the

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Central Library was rebuilt, the building was used as temporary Central Library.

Proposed reuse

Since the criminal and civil courts will be moving out of City-County Building (CCB) by 2022 into a new Jail/Courts complex,

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Joe Hogsett Joseph Hadden Hogsett (born November 2, 1956) is an American attorney, prosecutor, and politician who is the 49th mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana. Prior to being elected, Hogsett served as the Secretary of State of Indiana from 1989 to 1994 and ...

proposed in 2018 that the CCB be sold to private developers and the City/County government be moved back into an updated city hall. "Our offices struggle to reorganize around modern technology," Hogsett said. "Many of our offices are sized with the assumption records will be kept in rows and rows of filing cabinets. Why not? That's how they kept the records in 1960. That's how the (City-County Building) was built."

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External links

* Historic American Buildings Survey in Indiana City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Neoclassical architecture in Indiana Government buildings completed in 1910 Buildings and structures in Indianapolis National Register of Historic Places in Indianapolis {{Indianapolis-stub