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Circa 1905. "City Hall -- Richmond, Virginia." Completed in 1894 at a cost of $1.3 million. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Adjusted for inflation, using the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator, the equivalent 2017 cost of this edifice would be $35,842,650.06. Where did they come up with that much cash, less than 30 years after the end of the Civil War?
[The building's cost is said to have been a million dollars over its $300,000 budget. - Dave]
This building served as Richmond's City Hall from its completion in 1894 until the 1970's. It's now used for offices. Although uncomfortably near the beautiful Thomas Jefferson-Charles Louis Clérisseau designed Virginia State Capitol, it's in the rear and not close enough to interfere visually with the classic grace of that building.
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