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Albany City Hall

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A grand Romanesque-style building, Albany’s City Hall was designed in 1882 by Henry Hobson Richardson, then America’s greatest architect. Constructed of Rhode Island granite with a darker stone trim, the building features a profusion of arches, a pyramidal-roofed tower, and a 49-bell carillon—the first municipal carillon in the United States. Considered to be the most Romanesque of all of Richardson’s buildings, it contains many of his trademark features, including intricately patterned stonework, rich floral carvings, and fanciful finials and gargoyles.

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