Richmond Town Hall is a civic building located on Bridge Road in

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, a suburb of

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Architecture

Built in the 1890s, the original Richmond Town Hall was in the Venetian Gothic Revival style, consisting of polychrome brickwork and a large tower. In the 1930s, the façade was remodelled in the Interwar Academic

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style, with

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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

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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 A ...

with the City of Collingwood and the

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in 1994, to form the new

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, the Town Hall became the corporate headquarters for the new Yarra City Council.

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