City-County Building (Indianapolis)

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City-County Building

The City-County Building is a high-rise in Indianapolis . The 113.46 meter high steel and glass construction extends over 28 floors. The building is the seat of Unigov , as the 1970 merged administration of the city of Indianapolis and Marion County is called.

The City-County Building is located in downtown Indianapolis at 200 East Washington Street . The main entrance is south-facing, in front of which there is a square with planted borders , where the Marion County courthouse was until the completion of the City-County Building. To the north of the building is the Indianapolis City Market.

The building was established in Indianapolis architectural firm Wright, Porteous & Lowe / Bonar and Lennox, Matthews, Simmons & Ford, Inc. designed. The laying of the foundation stone was on December 21, 1960, the City-County Building was first occupied in January 1962. The city ​​hall, which was previously located in the three blocks further south, moved to the City-County Building, as did the Marion County Court after that it was demolished. The City-County Building replaced the Soldiers 'and Sailors' Monument a few blocks to the east as the tallest structure in Indianapolis and remained as such until the One Indiana Square high-rise office building was completed in 1970.

The City-County Building is the seat of the mayor , the City-County Council and the courts of Marion County. The building is administered by the Indianapolis-Marion County Building Authority.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Emporis : City-County Building . Retrieved May 24, 2010
  2. ↑ Carroll James Owen, York Y. Willbern: Governing metropolitan Indianapolis: the politics of Unigov. , University of California Press, 1985, ISBN 0520051475
  3. ↑ Gregory A. Ballard, Mayor of Indianapolis Office of the Mayor , accessed May 24, 2010
  4. ↑ City of Indianapolis and Marion County City-County Council , accessed May 24, 2010
  5. ^ Marion County Circuit and Superior Courts , accessed May 24, 2010
  6. ^ League of Women Voters of Indianapolis (Ed.): Unigov Handbook. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lwvindy.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.4 MB) League of Women Voters Education Fund, Indianapolis 2001

Coordinates: 39 ° 46 ′ 3.8 ″  N , 86 ° 9 ′ 12.7 ″  W.