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Civic and School Life Feature Site
Faribault City Hall
and the Renaissance Revival Style
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Faribault City Hall architect, Harry W. Jones,
was a student of Henry Hobson Richardson, a fact perhaps reflected
in the building’s strong mass. The building's formal, cubed
style helped to communicate the significance of the municipal and
civic work that took place in this building.
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Revival style include the building's entryway, symmetrically flanked
by columns and crowned with an entablature (the stone "table"
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The building also reflects the Renaissance Revival
style in its many rounded arches, as in these examples above the
windows and the belt course (line of stone) separating the lower
and upper stories.
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