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Altoona City Hall, Twelfth Street & Thirteenth Avenue, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Altoona City Hall, Twelfth Street & Thirteenth Avenue, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Summary

Significance: For a brief period, from 1918 to 1921, Altoona adopted a city manager form of government which accomplished a great deal in a short time. In addition to upgrading the public parks system and initiating new highways projects, the city manager also streamlined municipal government, establishing a more efficient and equitable system for collecting taxes. Although construction of the proposed municipal building did not take place under the brief reform administration, the Beaux Arts-style city hall of 1925-27, a design by Frederic Sholler and Frank Hersh of Altoona, nonetheless stands as a symbol of the reformers' aspirations and the city's progress in the boom decade of the 1920s.
Survey number: HABS PA-5520
Building/structure dates: 1925- 1927 Initial Construction

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Date

1927 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Hersh & Shollar
Columbia Construction Company, Incorporated
Grannas, E L
McGinley Cut Stone
Altoona Brick Company
J. C. Orr & Sons
Blair Building Material Company
Bethlehem Fabricating Company
Union Roofing Company
Wilson, H L
W. I. Daugherty & Sons
Otis Elevator
Mulch Brothers
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company
Standard Supply & Equipment Company
Tierney, F S
Spence, J E
McCartney, H W
William F. Gable Company
Van Doren Iron Works
Wallace, Kim E, project manager
America's Industrial Heritage Project (AIHP), sponsor
Ames, David, photographer
Spiegel, Nancy, historian
Hoagland, Alison K, historian
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Location

Altoona (Pa.)40.51251, -78.41041
Google Map of 40.5125068, -78.41041179999999
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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