page_title: Pasadena City Hall
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Pasadena City Hall / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Courtyard of en:Pasadena City Hall
context_page_description: Pasadena City Hall, completed in 1927, serves as the central location for city government in the City of Pasadena, California and it is a significant architectural example of the City Beautiful movement of the 1920s.
context_section_description: In 1923, the people of Pasadena approved a bond measure issuing $3.5 million towards the development of a civic center.  City Hall was to be the central element of this center.  The San Francisco architecture firm of Bakewell and Brown designed City Hall, which has elements of both Mediterranean Revival Style and Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture.  It was completed on December 27, 1927 at a cost of $1.3 million.  It measures 361 feet (110 m) by 242 feet (74 m), and rises 6 stories.  There are over 235 rooms and passageways that cover over 170,000 square feet (16,000 m²).  The defining dome, located above the west entrance, is 26 feet (7.9 m) tall and 54 feet (16 m) in diameter.  
  On July 28, 1980 the Civic Center District, including Pasadena City Hall, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as listing #80000813.
caption: Courtyard
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