Guthrie envisioned a municipal building for the Territorial Capital soon after its villages united into a city, purchasing lots in 1891. Its building spree peaked on April 9, 1902, with the laying of the cornerstone for a commodious City Hall designed by Joseph Foucart in his belfry and turret style. The $25,000.00 building housed all city offices, a jail, and a second-floor assembly room. Beginning in November 1906, that assembly room was used for the Constitutional Convention as elected delegates hammered out Oklahoma's State Constitution. It also served many civic purposes, including inaugural balls for Territorial Governor Frank Frantz and first State Governor Charles N. Haskell, early county fairs, public events through the years, and basketball games during the 1920's. In 1906, Carry A. Nation was denied use of the hall on one of her prohibition speaking tours, to her bitter and vocal fury. The City Hall lots somehow remained on the county's tax rolls, and in November 1912 F. L. Williams paid the $7.45 taxes due and received title to the lots, then sold them back to the city for $8.00 in December 1915. After bonds for a new City Hall were approved by a slender margin, the old building was razed in July 1955, and bricks from it were used for the entryway paving of the present structure.