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Richmond Town Hall is a civic building located on
Bridge Road in
Richmond
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* Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States
* Richmond, London, a part of London
* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England
* Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada
* Richmond, California, ...
, a suburb of
Melbourne
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,
Australia
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.
Architecture
Built in the 1890s, the original Richmond Town Hall was in the
Venetian Gothic
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Revival style
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, consisting of polychrome brickwork and a large tower. In the 1930s, the façade was remodelled in the Interwar Academic
Classical Revival
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style, with
Art Deco
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decorations, to become the Richmond City Hall.
The Town Hall was refurbished in 1991, but some sections of the rear of the building, and some interior spaces, retain the original
Victorian era
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detailing.
[ After the amalgamation of the ]City of Richmond
The City of Richmond was a local government area about east of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1855 until 1994.
History
Richmond was incorporated as a municipality on 24 Ap ...
with the City of Collingwood
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and the City of Fitzroy
The City of Fitzroy was a local government area about northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , making it the smallest municipality by land area in Victoria, and existed from 1858 until 199 ...
in 1994, to form the new City of Yarra
The City of Yarra is a local government area (LGA) in Victoria, Australia in the inner eastern and northern suburbs of Melbourne. It is the second smallest LGA in the state with an area of , and in June 2018 it had a population of 98,521, ma ...
, the Town Hall became the corporate headquarters for the new Yarra City Council.
See also
*List of Town Halls in Melbourne
This is a list of town halls in Melbourne, Australia, with the local municipality listed after them.
*Box Hill Town Hall – City of Whitehorse
*Brighton Town Hall, Melbourne – City of Bayside
*Broadmeadows Town Hall – City of Hume
*Brunswi ...
*City of Yarra
The City of Yarra is a local government area (LGA) in Victoria, Australia in the inner eastern and northern suburbs of Melbourne. It is the second smallest LGA in the state with an area of , and in June 2018 it had a population of 98,521, ma ...
*List of mayors of Yarra
This is a list of mayors of the City of Yarra local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, which was formed in 1994 by the amalgamation of the City of Fitzroy, City of Collingwood and the City of Richmond.
Commissioners (1994-1996)
...
*List of mayors of Richmond
This is a list of mayors and chairmen of the City of Richmond, a former local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and its precedents. It existed from 1855 until 1994 when it merged with the City of Collingwood and City of Fitzroy to ...
References
External links
{{Town halls of Melbourne
Town halls in Melbourne
Gothic Revival architecture in Melbourne
Neoclassical architecture in Australia
Art Deco architecture in Melbourne
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Buildings and structures in the City of Yarra
Clock towers in Australia