page_title: Old City Hall (Mobile, Alabama)
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Old City Hall (Mobile, Alabama) / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Old City Hall and Southern Market in Mobile, Alabama. Currently home of the Museum of Mobile. Detail of iron-work over wrought iron doorway.
context_page_description: Old City Hall, also known as the Southern Market, is a historic complex of adjoining buildings in Mobile, Alabama, that currently houses the History Museum of Mobile. The complex was built from 1855 to 1857 to serve as a city hall and as a marketplace. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973, as a rare well-preserved example of a 19th-century multifunction civic and commercial building.
context_section_description: The complex is Italianate style in design and comprises four rectangular sections connected by three arcaded passageways.  The grouping is 244 feet (74 m) wide on Royal Street, 275 feet (84 m) long on Church Street, and the back is 213 feet (65 m) wide on Water Street.  The building is stucco over brick construction with wood trim and brackets.
  The two central sections form a U shaped mass, fronted on Royal Street and extend to Water Street.  They are two floors in elevation on Royal Street and one floor in elevation on Water Street.  This central section is crowned with a central octagonal cupola.  The two annex wings are also two floors in elevation, although of lesser height than the central sections.  The south wing annex is 30 feet (9 m) wide by 275 feet (84 m) long and faces Church Street.  The ground floor of the south wing once housed stalls and shops for the market, but has since been altered to enclose the space.  The north wing annex is 30 feet (9 m) wide and is much shorter in length than the south wing.  The north wall is attached to the neighboring Gulf Coast Exploreum.
caption: Detail of the arcade ironwork.
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