Old Indianapolis City Hall, formerly known as the Indiana State Museum, is a historic city hall located at Indianapolis, Indiana. It was built in 1909–1910, and is a four-story, Classical Revival style brick building sheathed in Indiana limestone. It measures 188 by 133 feet (57 by 41 m).[2]: 2–4
City Hall was opened in 1910 and was used for that purpose until 1962, when city offices moved to the City-County Building (CCB). [3]
The building housed the Indiana State Museum from 1966 to 2001. Later, when the Indianapolis Public Library Central Library was being rebuilt, the building was used as the temporary Central Library.
Proposed reuse
In anticipation of the criminal and civil courts moving out of the CCB by 2022 into a new Jail/Courts complex, MayorJoe Hogsett proposed in 2018 that the CCB be sold to private developers and the city and county government offices be moved back into an updated city hall.[3] This proposal was not implemented.
On August 29, 2023, Hogsett announced that the old City Hall and the adjoining parking lot to its north would be sold to the development firm TWG. A 32-story tower with 190 residential units, 150 hotel rooms, 8,000 square feet (740 m2) of retail and hospitality space, and about 300 parking spaces will be built on the parking lot. A 21c Museum Hotel, the ninth in North America, will occupy floors 6 through 13 of the tower and will use parts of the city hall for its public art gallery. Total cost of the project is estimated to be $140 million.[4]
