This is Columbia’s fourth City Hall, one with a distinguished pedigree. It was designed as the United States Courthouse and Post Office by Federal Supervising Architect Alfred B. Mullet in the 1870s. An early example of Renaissance Revival architecture, tt was completed in 1876 at a total cost of over $400,000. When the federal judiciary outgrew the building in the 1920s, Mayor L.B. Owens swapped land for a new courthouse for this building.
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