Astoria City Hall

Astoria City Hall is the current city hall for the town of Astoria, Oregon, United States. Built in 1923 to house a bank, the building became the city hall in 1939, and it has remained Astoria's seat of government for more than 75 years.HistoryThe three-story building was constructed in 1923, as the Astoria Savings Bank, to replace that bank's previous building on the same site, destroyed by fire. The bank went out of business in 1929, as a result of the stock-market crash of that year. Clatsop County acquired the building in 1936, and in 1938 the city of Astoria used a Public Works Administration grant to fund the conversion of the building into a new city hall, to replace the Old Astoria City Hall, built in 1904–05. The city offices, as well as those of the Astoria School District, moved into the new city hall at the end of March 1939. The move put Astoria's city hall in downtown, an improvement in public access over the "isolated" previous location at the edge of downtown.A major modification made in the 1970s was the addition of a second floor, through extension of a mezzanine level. That addition was a new "middle floor", between the original two floors. The city council chambers are located on that second floor, and what then became the third floor is occupied by most of the city staff's offices.In 1998, the building was designated a contributing property in the Astoria Downtown Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 22 of that year.