"Town Hall" redirects here. For the website, see Townhall. For other uses, see Town Hall (disambiguation).
"City Hall" and "Rathaus" redirect here. For other uses, see City Hall (disambiguation) and Rathaus (disambiguation).
Moorabbin Town Hall in Victoria, Australia.Palazzo Senatorio, seat of the municipality of Rome. It has been a town hall since AD 1144, making it the oldest town hall in the world.New York City Hall, the oldest continuous seat of local government in the United States, completed in 1812[1]A consolidated town hall, police, and fire station in South Palm Beach, Florida16th-century Fordwich Town Hall in Kent, United Kingdom, closely resembling a market hall in its designThe Sydney Town Hall, marking the Inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia, 190113th-century Old Town Hall in Wrocław, PolandThe Alsfeld town hall in Germany as an example of a half-timbered town hall from the transition from Gothic to RenaissanceGeorge Town City Hall, Penang, houses the office of Municipal Council of Penang Island in MalaysiaTown hall of Recife, BrazilStockholm City Hall, where the Nobel Banquet takes place on 10 December each year.
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK[citation needed] or Australia), guildhall, or municipal building (in the Philippines) is the chief administrative building of a city,[2] town, or other municipality. It usually houses the city or town council, its associated departments, and their employees. It also usually functions as the base of the mayor of a city, town, borough, county or shire, and of the executive arm of the municipality (if one exists distinctly from the council).
By convention, until the middle of the 19th century, a single large open chamber (or "hall") formed an integral part of the building housing the council. The hall may be used for council meetings and other significant events. This large chamber, the "town hall" (and its later variant "city hall") has become synonymous with the whole building, and with the administrative body housed in it. The terms "council chambers", "municipal building" or variants may be used locally in preference to "town hall" if no such large hall is present within the building.
The local government may endeavor to use the building to promote and enhance the quality of life of the community. In many cases, "town halls" serve not only as buildings for government functions, but also have facilities for various civic and cultural activities. These may include art shows, stage performances, exhibits, and festivals. Modern town halls or "civic centres" are often designed with a great variety and flexibility of purpose in mind. In some European countries, the town hall is the venue for the declaration of Christmas Peace, such as Turku and Porvoo in Finland[3] and Tartu in Estonia.[4]
As symbols of local government, city, and town halls have distinctive architecture, and the buildings may have great historical significance – for example the Guildhall, London. City hall buildings may also serve as cultural icons that symbolize their cities.
^Grynbaum, Michael M. (May 24, 2012). "The Reporters of City Hall Return to Their Old Perch". The New York Times. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
^"city hall". Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-19. 1 : the chief administrative building of a city 2 a : a municipal government b : city officialdom or bureaucracy
^"Christmas in Porvoo". City of Porvoo. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
^Christmas Peace is Proclaimed, Tartu Postimees.ee, retrieved 17 June 2020
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