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City Hall and Fire Station

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1986, Hahnfeld Associates. 303 Palo Pinto St.

Dramatically situated on the crest of a hill overlooking downtown Weatherford, this complex replaced the city hall and fire station of 1934 at 119 Palo Pinto. The city hall is composed of a long, low, flat-roofed, rectangular building of reddish brown brick with segmental-arched windows raised on a series of low brick terraces. The effect is reminiscent of an aqueduct running across the hill. A freestanding pavilion with a pyramidal glass roof marks the entrance, and the building has two courts; one is open-air, and the other is the city council chamber. The chamber rises above the building in the form of a simple copper-clad barn. The fire station, a separate building on the site’s south side, has similar brick walls and arched openings to blend with the city hall.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "City Hall and Fire Station", [Weatherford, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-WC5.

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Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 245-246.

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