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Houston City Hall At 901 Bagby St.


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Houston City Hall, main entrance, east elevation 901 Bagby Street, Houston,

The doors to the building are of a specially cast aluminum. In the grillwork above the main entrances are aluminum medallions of the "great lawgivers" from ancient times to the founding of America: Akhenaten, Julius Caesar, Moses, Charlemagne, King John and Thomas Jefferson.
On the front terrace are statues of John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen, the Houston founders.
The City Hall was building in 1939 by architect Joseph Finger.

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The lobby at City Hall Houston

The Mural on the ceiling of the first floor lobby was painted by commercial artist Daniel MacMorris of Kansas City. The mural depicts industry, culture, law and municipal administration in Houston.
Colors of dusty pink, saffron and rosy red were used to blend with the marble and the soft lighting in the lobby.
The centerpiece of the mural is a plaster relief of the Western hemisphere, with the star of Houston in the center. The relief is surrounded by the signs of the zodiac.
City Hall also was one of the first totally air-conditioned office buildings in Houston.
www.houstontx.gov/abouthouston/cityhallhistory.html

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The ceiling at City Hall, Houston

The Mural on the ceiling of the first floor lobby was painted by commercial artist Daniel MacMorris of Kansas City. The mural depicts industry, culture, law and municipal administration in Houston. In one panel a man appears to be wearing a Confederate officer's uniform under his cape. Colors of dusty pink, saffron and rosy red were used to blend with the marble and the soft lighting in the lobby. The centerpiece of the mural is a plaster relief of the Western hemisphere, with the star of Houston in the center. The relief is surrounded by the signs of the zodiac.
www.houstontx.gov/abouthouston/cityhallhistory.html

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