page_title: Hong Kong City Hall
section_title: First generation
hierarchical_section_title: Hong Kong City Hall / First generation
caption_attribution_description: English: City Hall of Hong Kong, c.1875, author unknown
context_page_description: Hong Kong City Hall is a building located at Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.
  Since Hong Kong is a "Special Administrative Region" and not a normal Chinese city, there is no mayor or city council; therefore, the City Hall does not hold the offices of a city government, unlike most city halls around the world. Instead, it is a complex providing municipal services, including performing venues and libraries.
  The City Hall is managed by the Government's Leisure and Cultural Services Department. The Urban Council managed the City Hall and held its meetings there prior to its dissolution in December 1999. Prior to its dissolution the UrbCo served as the municipal council for Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. The UrbCo had its meeting chamber in the Low Block of the City Hall.
context_section_description: Hong Kong's first City Hall, which existed from 1869 to 1933, occupied the current sites of the HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building (partly) and the Bank of China Building. 
  It was designed by the French architect Achille-Antoine Hermitte and was opened by Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, in a ceremony on 28 June 1869.
  The current site of the HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building was occupied in part by the old City Hall, and in part by the first and second generations of the HSBC building.
caption: City Hall c.1875, oblique view of eastern façade
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