File:Huntington City Hall, Huntington, West Virginia LCCN2015631822.tif
Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; In 1911, when the city determined to erect a new municipal buiding, it purchased a tract of land on the northeast corner of 5th Avenue as the site, paying the then-unheard-of sum of $46,000 for it. The city retained Verus T. Ritter, one of Huntington's most successful architects, to design it. Completed in 1915, the Neo-Classical-style building is faced with cream-colored brick with terra-cotta details, supplied by the Maryland Terra-cotta Company of Baltimore; limestone quarried in Bedford, Indiana, and granite from Mt. Airy, North Carolina.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Library of Congress
- Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2015631822
- Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/highsm/31700/31747a.tif
- Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.31747
Carol M. Highsmith
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Alternative names | Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney Carol McKinney Highsmith | ||
Description | American photographer and architectural photographer | ||
Date of birth |
18 May 1946 ![]() | ||
Location of birth | Leaksville, North Carolina | ||
Work period | 1981- | ||
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