Claremont City Hall

Claremont's municipal offices have occupied one or more buildings at this location since 1925, and city officials repeatedly chose to keep City Hall in the Village to help protect the Village's vitality as the community's civic and social center. The facility that now houses City Hall began as three separate buildings: a fire station, the Chamber of Commerce office, and City Hall. The first building opened in November 1925 facing Second Street, with a fire station on the first floor and the City Council Chamber and city offices on the second. In 1930, the southeastern section of the present building was constructed as a one-room Chamber of Commerce office, and later additional city offices were built north of it; in 1948, all three buildings were joined together. In 1938, the former fire station area was adapted into the City Council Chamber, while the former Council Chamber area became office space. After the Chamber of Commerce moved to a new location in 1976, its space became the City Manager's office. City Hall assumed its current configuration after a major renovation in 1998, a process begun by a 1989 City Council decision to modernize the building and later refined to include seismic strengthening, improved accessibility, and infrastructure upgrades, while preserving an important part of Claremont's architectural history and social heritage and making it easier for the community to interact and conduct business with city officials.

Claremont, California · United States