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Facing city hall from the other side of the street, the Chase building's 21-bay south (front) facade is 243 feet (74 m) in length, making the Chase building wider than city hall which it complements by reversing the facade planes. An iron fence with small trees runs along the sidewalk; from it a
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to other uses, mainly private office space and additional city offices. City government continues to occupy City Hall. By the end of the 20th century the decline of the city's industries had led to the deterioration of the building, and it was condemned by the city's building department. A bond issue
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During that time the Chases were occupied with seeing through the construction of their new corporate headquarters. The existing buildings were acquired and demolished. After Henry Chase died in 1918, his brother Frederick assumed his responsibilities. He continued the good relationship with Gilbert
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of brick and wood around the rooftop. Lincoln House was finished in 1916. Since most medical supplies at that time were geared to war production needs, it remained largely unoccupied until 1917. In 1921 Associated Charities, as much to avoid the stigma of its name that discouraged those it was meant
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Henry and Frederick Chase, brothers who owned the eponymous brass company, not only the largest in the city but the country, along with the world's largest clock factory, saw how the clock tower created a new focal point along Grand Street. They felt that the street should now be the main route into
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Chase had originally approved a brick-and-stone concept for the company headquarters across the street, but then thought better of it. "...t would seem a presumptuous attempt on the part of private citizens to imitate and share the dignity of city hall", Chase wrote Gilbert. "The position we hold in
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Gilbert had hoped to add a sixth building, a theater, using land owned by the Chases to the east of the bank building and the Power House to the rear of the bank, a ca. 1900 structure the family also had bought to make the complex viable. He drew up plans for it in 1919, but after the completion of
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It is likely the only remaining structure in the neighborhood that predates the construction of the buildings, built around 1900. Originally it was used as a power station. Gilbert, who hoped to make it part of a theater that would have been the complex's sixth building, called it the "Power House"
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The main stairs end in a small, plain square room on the second floor. It leads into a wider version of the central hall, meant to serve as a waiting room. Off it are some bedrooms and examining rooms. The third story is all bedrooms, and the basement is equipped with showers and fumigating rooms.
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on the east. The third story has a panel (further inscribed with "Reason is the Life of Law" on the west) between two circular bas-reliefs in carved leaf surrounds. On the east side they depict "Truth" as a woman contemplating a skull and "Prudence" as a woman gazing into a mirror; on the west are
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In the late 20th century, other organizations that had been housed in the buildings also left them. The Chamber of Commerce left the Power House in 1960. In 1974, the Family Service Association, in need of space more suited to its needs, left Lincoln House after half a century for new quarters on
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a few years earlier, won a competition to design City Hall as the first of a complex of buildings that would highlight the public and private heights of the city. He may have been the favorite because the members of the city's building commission had apparently been impressed by his Ives Memorial
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in the second and fourth bays at both levels and the south has a large, two-level arched window in the center bay with two six-over-six windows. In the rear the balustrade has five solid marble panels. The chimney, brick capped with marble, rises from the roof just south of the northeast corner.
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All the other three facades are similarly treated. On the east (rear) the entrance is at ground level, and the windows are correspondingly dropped to provide better lighting at that level. The south side has a centrally located basement entry, matched by a smaller sash in the center of the north
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Four fluted Tower of the Winds columns rise from the balcony level of the central pavilion. The windows they divide are identical to those in the middle bays of the wing end second stories, with the third stories likewise fenestrated with shorter six-over-six. Two bronze lanterns flank the main
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found water leaking through the ceiling and into the walls and roof, rusting the structural steel and loosening stones on the face. Vandals opened a fire hose in 2005, flooding the entire building. More flooding damaged the building when copper piping was stolen. The Fire Department eventually
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It is not certain whether Gilbert was the Chases' first choice for the project. The three did establish a productive relationship, and Gilbert quickly laid out a park for the small block opposite the train station and designed a fountain for it as well. Construction began on City Hall in 1912,
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The addition of the bank building to the complex allowed Gilbert to use the three buildings to frame the view of the clock tower for westbound traffic on Grand Street. The entourage of City Hall and corresponding setback of the Chase Building allow the tower to dominate a wide open area. When
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in London. "I have been studying a number of English examples of the Georgian period", he wrote to a friend, "and find so many in which the material was all brick or stone that I am justified in quoting this one as typical." He had wanted the facing to be entirely marble as well, but the city
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lintel on consoles. They have a small balcony with iron guardrails. A stringcourse around the building sets off the third story and forms its window sills. The central section has six-over-six with a plain surround. On both second and third stories of the wings' south face they are flanked by
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The Chases committed $ 100,000 of their own money ($ 3.01 million in contemporary dollars) to the project, primarily spent on design work while the city committed $ 30,000 ($ 1,017,000 in contemporary dollars), spent on salaries. At the time the economy was still recovering from the
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Due to the change in use, there is less original detail in the west chamber. The balustrade, wall clock and light fixtures are among those aspects that do. The ceiling, also original, has the same center rosettes as its eastern counterpart but with square panels on the outer portions.
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of header bricks laid vertically creates a springline for the round arches with keystones that enclose the second floor windows. Both they and the first-story windows are six-over-six double-hung sash; the third story has three-over-three. Above them is a narrow dentilled
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After the war, there were other changes. The Lincoln House Association changed its name again, to the Family Service Association (It is now Family Services of Greater Waterbury). Other tenants of the space in those years included the city's Adult Probation Department,
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above the first story to divide the bays of the second and third stories, forming a balustrade. Six-over-six trabeated double-hung sash on the second floor are topped with cap cornices. Above them the third level windows are plainer and shorter trabeated six-over-six.
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The center door is screened by a bronze grille. It has a full foliate surround and fan, radiating from a central cluster to end in anthemia. On the door itself are grilles of square panels with center medallions that alternate between round and square shapes and
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below the roof cornice has rosettes or patera atop each pilaster. In the middle of the wings, and above the central pavilion, is a solid panel. That above the pavilion has "CHASE" carved in it. The north (rear) facade is less ornate but also well-delineated. A
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The complex was financed by the Chase family, owners of the Chase Brass Company, one of Waterbury's major industries at the time. In the wake of a 1902 fire that had destroyed a portion of downtown, the Chases and other local businessmen saw an opportunity for
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The last building to be added was the dispensary. It had always been planned—Gilbert was instructed to design it in 1916—but the shortage of materials caused by the war resulted in its construction being put off. In 1923 the Chase family created a permanent
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Murray Street. The dispensary left as well that year. Lincoln House passed through several owners, its future uncertain for a while, until it was rehabilitated into law offices by one. The dispensary is now home to the Connecticut Community Foundation.
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flat-topped openings in all four sides. Above it is a blind balustrade with corner posts and swags. Pilasters frame arched openings. Another blind balustrade, its corners topped with urns, has clocks in all four faces. The final stage is a bell-cast
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caps in the pavilion and full round-arched windows on the ends. At the end of the pavilion are narrow sash windows with bronze grilles. The center bays of the end sets, and the pavilion bays, have bronze geometric balconies with center medallions.
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is located immediately to the south of Lincoln House on Field Street. It was the last building of the complex constructed, after the space in Lincoln House allotted to the dispensary proved inadequate. Like Lincoln House, it is of brick in
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facility to the south; the city's post office and a federal court building on the east along the south side of Grand (across from a row of commercial buildings), a state courthouse and the Silas Bronson library and its park to the west.
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Located on the south side of Grand, City Hall has three sections. A large main block faces the street, with two projecting rear wings on the south housing the police and fire departments. They are connected by a rear section to form a
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The police wing, on the east, is mostly identical. A rear wing houses the jail. It has eleven bays at street level, and the main entrance is in the center of the west facade. Its rear bays have trabeated openings with bronze grilles.
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In the last years of his life, Henry Chase had begun acquiring the land for the bank building. Gilbert was asked to draw up plans, and delivered them in late 1919. Construction began a few months later, and was completed in 1922.
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Unlike Lincoln House, the dispensary is only two stories in height. Atop the building is a narrow frieze created by vertically laid bricks and a marble cornice with Wall of Troy molded marble dentilling. The roofline has a marble
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The second story windows are also sash, set in rectangular openings with sills and cornice caps on consoles topped with rosettes or oval patera. The middle bays of the wings are six-over-six in a slightly recessed arch with
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viaduct. City Hall and the Chase Building are on opposite sides of Grand between Church, Field and Leavenworth streets; the other four are on the east side of Field. Immediately adjacent are some other public buildings: a
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won the competition to design a new complex a few blocks from the old city hall building (since demolished) on West Main Street. Unusual for the time, the complex would house not just the mayor and city council but the
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Waterbury west of Waterbury Green. The city, at the height of the industrial prosperity its brassmakers had led, was easily able to rebuild. Eminent citizens of the city had also seen in the process the opportunity to
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At the landing next to this window the stairs divide. They are girded by an iron balustrade with bronze railing. The stairwell is further balustraded with a stylized compass in the center and a wave beneath the rail.
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By the early 21st century, most city government functions, including the mayor's office and council meetings, had been moved across the street to the Chase Building. City Hall itself had fallen into serious decline.
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walk leads up to balustraded steps at the main entrance. On either end two three-bay–wide wings project four bays to the street. In the central 15-bay section, the middle three bays project forward slightly.
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On the east side, the fire station wing is a nine-by-eleven-bay two-story structure. Like the main block it is stone on the first and brick up top. Five of the six arched bays on the east side are used for
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in Washington, drew his attention and he was unable to return to Waterbury before he died in 1934. The land was eventually sold to the federal government in the late 1930s for the city's new post office.
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The entrance is a simple bronze door. It opens into the former bank lobby. Bronze cashiers railings with grilles atop marble counters lead to where the tellers' cages once stood. There are front and rear
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cities, the Associated Charities made recommendations to Gilbert in 1915. His design for Lincoln House was the only one significantly altered prior to construction. The original design called for a full
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effect. The windows' sections are a full window with flanking sidelights and three matching sections in the fan. Beneath them are wooden panels decorated with the same wave pattern used in City Hall's
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in 2007, which defeated it. After council trimmed the proposal to $ 36 million, the Independent aldermen agreed not to seek another referendum, and it was adopted. The building was reopened in 2011.
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the community is such that we dislike very much having this impression exist." For the same reason the brothers vetoed the use of a marble facade. The architect and the brothers then toured
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looking for other ideas, and left it to Gilbert to come up with his ultimate solution, limestone deployed in a more Renaissance Revival style. He in turn persuaded the Chases to accept the
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floors. There are also original dark wood surrounds on some office doors, with a few having their original panels below and glazed panels of opaque glass in their upper sections and even
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An older building is joined to the bank building's southern elevation, between it and the Lincoln House. It is a two-story structure of brick, painted to match the limestone bank, in
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The privations caused by the Panic of 1907 had made clear the city's need for a single facility from which all its charities could operate. After studying such facilities in other
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with gougework and geometric shapes sets off the third story. The pavilion has trabeated six-over-six sash flanked by blind bays at its end, and the end bays have circular
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The entourage is a rectangular area, reached by steps from the street, with a paved oval at the center. In the middle of the oval is a round marble fountain within a round
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along the hall continues to the main staircase in the rear. On the left is the dining room, with the greatest amount of detail of any room in the building. It has a flat
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with oak and acorn capitals. To the west of the vestibule is a panel with gilded letters both serving as a building directory and dedication plaque. Entrances are set in
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On either end of the hallway are city council chambers. The eastern one was originally built for that purpose; the western one was a courtroom. In the former, the
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the building bought it from the company. After three years, they in turn sold it to the city. It has been used as supplemental municipal office space ever since.
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the building. Aldermen from the Independent Party who believed the public should decide on a spending program that large succeeded in getting the issue put to a
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The city hall is frequently included in listings of Gilbert's major buildings, and he wished to remembered for it. It was used as a model for a new city hall in
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The Chase companies, by then Chase Brass & Copper, continued to use the headquarters building until the early 1960s. In 1963 ten residents interested in
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The five buildings in the complex cover a 4.4-acre (1.8 ha) area of Grand and Field streets on the south edge of downtown Waterbury, just north of the
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to serve from seeking help from it as to reflect that it had become known by the name of the building, changed its name to the Lincoln House Association.
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Marble steps lead up to the main entrance, in the middle of the west elevation. Its ornate surround has engaged columns on marble bases topped by a plain
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insisted on brick and stone, an alternation which Gilbert had felt would be disharmonious given the narrow window spaces. Adam's work also inspired the
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blocks paneled on the outer facings and autographed on the inner ones. Above the entry a marble panel reads "Henry Sabin Chase Memorial Dispensary".
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ordered all government bodies out of the building save the City Clerk's office, which could not function without access to the records vault.
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connecting it to a similar area on the second floor. The stair opening is to the south; examining rooms and offices are on the east and west.
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Impartiality is the life of Justice as Justice is of all government. Justice is the constant desire and effort to render to every man his due
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traveling the opposite direction, the large buildings emphasize the parks around them, with glimpses of the denser city beyond the spaces.
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railing. It supports cast iron and frosted glass lamps on bronze standards. The doorway is recessed in a brick arch with marble keystone,
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Inside the wall between the two wings is a courtyard. It has gardens and benches. Several of those latter are original Gilbert designs.
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Both of those facades have an identical treatment, echoing the Chase Building and City Hall. Like them, the first story is finished in
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moved into the Power House from Lincoln House. The charities and dispensary were very busy places at that time with the onset of the
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The complex took several years to conceive and a decade to build. It has continued to play a role in the city's history since then.
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Like the City Hall and Lincoln House, the Chase Building prominently features, among its architectural decorations, quotations from
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affected the buildings as well. Scrap metal was piled up on the entourage in front of City Hall, and the tower was surrounded with
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are slightly recessed in arched surrounds. The corners are slightly recessed; the middle 11 bays project slightly to form a small
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Off to the right is an office and waiting room. It has another tribute to Lincoln, a shield-shaped marble plaque with the entire
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appearance. On the east and west elevations only the interior bays are in arches. Within them are large six-over-six double-hung
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On the east and west sides are a central entrance with steps on either side. Above it is an arched tablet with an inscription: "
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in the middle stories. The two largest, City Hall and the Chase Building, have an opposite configuration. Many of the same
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downtown, worthy of its name, and developed a 20-year plan to remake it. In line with the principles of the contemporary
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ceiling is painted with triangles and rosettes. Round hanging bronze glazed lanterns with clustered bulbs provide light.
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were held down Grand Street with the reviewing section in front City Hall, as parades still are on civic holidays like
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functions of city government such the police and fire departments, courts and jails. In keeping with the contemporary
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of Southwestern New England, is located on the southeast corner of Field and Grand. It is a four-story five-by-seven-
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it
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that has since become a symbol of the city. After three years of construction, it was completed and opened in 1909.
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On the east side of Field Street, south of the bank building, is Lincoln House. It is a three-story five-bay square
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rise to a plain frieze topped by a molded shelf. The kitchen, in the rear, retains much of its original cabinetry.
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surround of its own topped by a keystone. The door itself has deep panels, six horizontal ones atop two vertical.
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First, the Chases sought to renovate Library Park, on the southeast corner of Grand and Meadow. They hired
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Similar architectural characteristics and motifs unite the buildings thematically. They have flat roofs,
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veterans. A rear entry with sidelights topped by teardrops and an elliptical arch with fanlight, all of
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80 feet (24 m) from the street to allow for a fountain plaza Gilbert referred to as the entourage.
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with bronze railings runs along the stairs, marble like all the building's flooring. The ceilings are
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Roman Doric columns in the entrance. Fluted wall pilasters and marble wainscoting supporting a full
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bordered by small hedges. At the rear of the parterres are marble urns with fountains flanking the
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At the rear of the hall the main staircase continues the wainscoting. Made of wood with round oak
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The front lobby is also lit from the rear by a six-over-six double-hung sash set with leaded and
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so that air wardens could keep watch from it. The Power House's door was sandbagged. Parades on
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and parapet capped with salt-glazed tile, the latter of which runs around the entire building.
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with marble trim. A flat roof is pierced by a brick chimney near the center of the north side.
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on its first story and brick with marble trim on the upper two. Atop its flat roof is a small
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Iron stairs with bronze railings lead to the upper floors. Some of them have their original
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The original mayor's office is directly opposite the top of the stairs. It has freestanding
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The side elevations are mostly similar in treatment. The north facade has four-over-four
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shortly after the old building had burned, when the Grand Street site narrowly won in a
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segmented arches. They are set with six-section rounded-arch windows, again creating an
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structure faced, like the Chase Building on the far corner, in limestone. All four
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In the second floor hallway, decoration is more restrained. It has marble floors,
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divide each bay, set with recessed nine-over-nine double-hung sash and projecting
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Gilbert took as his main inspiration for City Hall the house designed in 1772 by
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for it. Construction began in 1923 and the building was in use within the year.
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square, with marble accents and a flat roof. Exposed basement windows below the
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At the centrally located main entrance, the marble steps fan out, flanked by a
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at the pavilion ends. Above it is a modillioned cornice with carved leaves and
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with gouge work and medallions topped by a broad dentilled and modillioned
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Atop the first story of that pavilion is a blind paneled balustrade. Large
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In 2006 the City Council approved a $ 48 million bond issue to repair and
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on those plans. It was later renovated and annexed to the bank building.
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surrounds with medallions; the stairway and vestibule arches have eagle
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patterns are used on all the buildings. One in particular is the use of
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on a square base with neck molding and circular cap, it has a somewhat
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entrance, with grille-covered four-over-four sash in the outside bays.
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The hallway is sided in Vermont marble with carved panels featuring a
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in Manhattan as an example of how that element could be successful.
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six-over-six double-hung sash, in round arches on the second story.
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visited City Hall in 1936 on their way to a rally in Library Park.
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The former Waterbury National Bank Building, now headquarters for
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below the roofline has a regular pattern of decorated discs with
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on it above a facsimile of Lincoln's signature. At the top is a
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pattern at the base, supported on eagle brackets and divided by
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The cupola, clock tower and weathervane atop Waterbury City Hall
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ceilings inside. The central stair was a tribute to the one at
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fence sets off the north and west facades from the sidewalks.
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are painted vases and medallions. The ceilings are plain.
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are two designs, one of which features a prominent eagle.
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garages, their double doors topped with radiating-sash
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The simple bronze door leads, as in City Hall, into a
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The three-story building is faced entirely in Indiana
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With malice toward none, and with charity towards all
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was later passed to raise money for its restoration.
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The first story is, like City Hall's marble, 1897: 1895: 2038: 1199:The front and rear doors open into identical 412:, from which a four-stage tower rises. It is 143:195, 235, 236 Grand St; 7, 35, 43 Field St., 8: 640:, opens into the east-west central hallway. 1965: 1963: 1961: 1767: 1765: 1763: 1761: 1759: 1757: 1755: 1753: 1751: 1749: 1747: 1745: 1743: 1741: 1739: 1737: 1735: 1733: 1731: 1729: 1727: 1725: 1723: 1721: 1719: 1717: 1715: 1713: 1711: 1709: 1707: 1705: 1703: 1701: 1699: 1697: 1695: 1693: 1691: 1689: 1687: 1685: 1683: 1681: 1679: 1677: 1675: 1673: 1671: 1669: 1667: 1665: 1663: 1661: 1659: 1657: 1655: 1653: 1651: 1649: 1647: 1645: 1643: 1641: 1639: 1637: 1635: 1473:the dispensary other projects, such as the 1352:building, capped by a 240-foot (73 m) 2045: 2031: 2023: 2018:Waterbury City Hall Rededication Committee 1633: 1631: 1629: 1627: 1625: 1623: 1621: 1619: 1617: 1615: 1468:1925–present:Use, decline and preservation 770:. Above them a cornice forms the base for 72: 2054:U.S. National Register of Historic Places 1346:New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad 396:The main block is a three-story, 17-by-3- 48:U.S. National Register of Historic Places 1945:"Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–" 1587: 1327:rethink and reshape the city's downtown 1029:. Inside that pediment is the entrance 686:and swag on top. The stair climbs to a 258:Cass Gilbert National Register District 18:Cass Gilbert National Register District 1596:"National Register Information System" 1381:, so the private funding was crucial. 31: 1943:Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. 1878:Clouette, Bruce (November 19, 1976). 1076:of Lincoln below an eagle in flight. 989:has a slightly exposed basement with 805:runs along the flat roof; there is a 78:South elevation, Chase Building, 2009 7: 1601:National Register of Historic Places 293:Downtown Waterbury Historic District 285:National Register of Historic Places 224:Downtown Waterbury Historic District 882:. As with the other two buildings, 1772:Tony P. Wrenn (January 28, 1978). 1401:Library, the main building of the 1154:, with those on the upper stories 1150:are, like its neighbor, four-pane 682:, opaque on the bottom but with a 254:Waterbury Municipal Center Complex 40:Waterbury Municipal Center Complex 25: 2122: 2115: 898:Above the third story is a full 840:Waterbury National Bank building 121: 114: 96: 89: 1443:, wooden dentilled cornice and 537:for "more lasting than brass." 1316:1902–1912: Renewal and concept 1285:Gilbert had apparently added " 793:narrower four-over-four sash. 231: 1: 820:Chase Building landing window 130:Show map of the United States 1971:"Waterbury:Saving City Hall" 1937:American Antiquarian Society 1917:American Antiquarian Society 1055:his second inaugural address 624:Behind it, there is a small 443:, the first-story marble is 29:United States historic place 2200:National Historic Landmarks 1267:fence out front, using the 1005:, with marble surrounds. A 973:structure of brick laid in 743:Chase Headquarters Building 663:with a center lamp between 2305: 1806:Christen, Barbara (2001). 1350:Second Renaissance Revival 274:Second Renaissance Revival 210:Second Renaissance Revival 2289:City halls in Connecticut 2208: 2113: 1822:W.W. Norton & Company 1129:Chase Memorial Dispensary 632:on the sides honor local 451:six-over-six double-hung 230:NRHP reference  83: 71: 67: 54: 45: 38: 34: 1882:. 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Atop the wall is a 630:commemorative plaques 567: 499:, "Force" as a Roman 439:On the north (front) 172:41.55417°N 73.04333°W 61:Contributing property 738:The central pavilion 716:and arched ceiling. 667:holding ribbons and 404:structure, faced in 318:Chase's headquarters 277:architectural styles 256:, also known as the 1533:Chamber of Commerce 1483:Chamber of Commerce 1481:In 1930 the city's 1406:Free Public Library 1396:, who had moved to 1338:a new train station 1294:Lexington, Kentucky 1287:Quid Aere Perennius 1269:J.P. Morgan Library 1133:The Chase Memorial 531:Quid Aere Perennius 331:ground levels, and 177:41.55417; -73.04333 168: /  1298:Mount Vernon, Ohio 1253:New York City Hall 1227: 1070:Gettysburg Address 1001:, all windows are 846:Junior Achievement 822: 779:Tower of the Winds 740: 570: 548:on the west, and " 507:. In the pilaster 283:and listed on the 2241: 2240: 2228:Historic district 1831:978-0-393-73065-4 1608:. March 13, 2009. 1421:Marcus H. Holcomb 997:. 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Cass Gilbert National Register District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Contributing property
A three-story stone building, seen from its left, with two projecting wings and a balustrade running along the top. An American flag flies from a flagpole above the main entrance at the center, where a row of four columns marks the main entrance. There is an iron fence in front and small iron balconies on the wings.
Waterbury Municipal Center Complex is located in Connecticut
Waterbury Municipal Center Complex is located in the United States
Waterbury, Connecticut
41°33′15″N 73°2′36″W / 41.55417°N 73.04333°W / 41.55417; -73.04333
Cass Gilbert
Second Renaissance Revival
Georgian Revival
Downtown Waterbury Historic District
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Waterbury
Cass Gilbert
Georgian Revival
Second Renaissance Revival
architectural styles
historic district
National Register of Historic Places
contributing properties
Downtown Waterbury Historic District
urban renewal
Cass Gilbert
public safety
City Beautiful movement
Chase's headquarters
dispensary
rusticated

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