The Rise and Fall and Rise of Kingston, NY City Hall
Fall 2024
City Hall, Kingston, N.Y., 1907
Number 420 Broadway, Kingston, NY, is a large red- and white-brick High Victorian Gothic municipal-style building. Its history often closely mirrored much of the economic and cultural turmoils of its nearly 150-year existence. Completed in 1875, it commanded its hillside heights with three main stories and a five-story tower with a belfry. Typical of the era’s architectural fashion, its noted public-building designer, Arthur Crooks, crowned it with steeply pitched intersecting gables topped with cast iron ornamentation at the ridges known as cresting. His inspiration was said to be the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy […]
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