Newport City Hall

Newport City Hall

Newport City Hall Damie Stillman
1898–1900, J. D. Johnston. 1927, interior and top floor destroyed by fire; rebuilt, W. Cornell Appleton. 43 Broadway (at Bull St.)

Another masonry block, this one mansarded, is the city hall. It has mansarded towers in each corner and one at the center of the front elevation with a second-floor porch for imagined mayoral proclamations, and originally a circular cupola on top. A long slope for the entrance stairs was meant for majesty of approach. Inside, a watercolor perspective of the original building from Johnston's office hangs in the much revamped first-floor hall.

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