Cincinnati City Hall, Cincinnati

Cincinnati City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of Cincinnati. Completed in 1893, the Richardson Romanesque structure was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 11, 1972. The building was designed by Samuel Hannaford.

The main building comprises four and a half stories with a nine-story clock tower. The building was constructed using stone quarried in Wisconsin, Ohio, Missouri, and Indiana. Marble stairways and wainscoting originated in Italy and Tennessee, while granite columns were obtained from Vermont. Stained glass windows were installed which depict Cincinnatus and illustrate Cincinnati's early history.

The first city hall was built on this site in 1852 and was demolished in 1888 to make way for the current structure. Construction costs for the building totaled $1.61 million of which $54,000 was paid to Samuel Hannaford as architect and construction superintendent.

An optical trick known as forced perspective makes the building appear even larger than it actually is. As it becomes taller, its windows get smaller.