The Sydney Town Hall is a late 19th-century heritage-listed town hall building in the city of Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales, Australia, housing the chambers of the Lord Mayor of Sydney, council offices, and venues for meetings and functions. It is located at 483 George Street, in the Sydney central business district opposite the Queen Victoria Building and alongside St Andrew's Cathedral. Sited above the Town Hall station and between the city shopping and entertainment precincts, the steps of the Town Hall are a popular meeting place.
The Sydney Town Hall.
The Sydney Town Hall was inspired by the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, France, making similar use of its mansard roofs and Victorian Second Empire detail.
Sydney Town Hall as it appeared in the early 1900s facing north with St. Andrew's Cathedral to the left
Clock tower
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre, guildhall, or municipal building is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses the city or town council, its associated departments, and their employees. It also usually functions as the base of the mayor of a city, town, borough, county or shire, and of the executive arm of the municipality.
Moorabbin Town Hall in Victoria, Australia.
Palazzo Senatorio, seat of the municipality of Rome. It has been a town hall since AD 1144, making it the oldest town hall in the world.
New York City Hall, the oldest continuous seat of local government in the United States, completed in 1812
A consolidated town hall, police, and fire station in South Palm Beach, Florida