City leaders have designed Riverside City Hall a historic landmark.
The Riverside City Council unanimously approved the designation at its meeting on Tuesday, July 15. The building located at 3900 Main St. was built between 1973 to 1975.
“This is an important move to start preserving mid-century modern architecture,” Councilmember Philip Falcone said at the meeting. “Which we have to have a greater appreciation for.”
The city code identifies landmarks as any improvement or natural feature that is an exceptional example of a historical, archaeological, cultural, architectural, community, aesthetic or artistic heritage, according to a city report.
Riverside’s City Hall is a Brutalist-New Formalist style building, designed by the local architectural firm of Ruhnau, Evans, and Steinmann, according to the report. The style represents the bold, heavy forms of Brutalism with the symmetry of New Formalism, featuring flat roofs, raised platforms, repeating arches, and public plazas.
The building was commissioned after a population boom that rendered the 1923 City Hall too small to meet the needs of a growing city, according to the report.
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