Baltimore City Hall is the official
seat of government of the
City of Baltimore, in the State of
Maryland. The City Hall houses the offices of the
Mayor and those of the
City Council of Baltimore. The building also hosts the city Comptroller, some various city departments, agencies and boards/commissions along with the historic chambers of the Baltimore City Council. Situated on a city block bounded by East Lexington Street on the north,
Guilford Avenue (formerly North Street) on the west,
East Fayette Street on the south and North Holliday Street with City Hall Plaza and the
War Memorial Plaza to the east, the six-story structure was designed by the then 22-year-old new architect,
George Aloysius Frederick (1842-1924) in the
Second Empire style, a
Baroque revival, with prominent
Mansard roofs with richly-framed dormers, and two floors of a repeating
Serlian window motif over an urbanely
rusticated basement.