English: Built in 1891-1892, this Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne-style building was designed by Truman Dudley Allen (T. D. Allen) to serve as the city hall for Columbus, Wisconsin. The building historically housed the Columbus Fire Department, Columbus Police Department, Columbus Jail, Columbus Public Library, and a public auditorium, though most of these government services have since found their own homes elsewhere in town outside of the building. The building is clad in buff brick with a rusticated Waukesha stone base and rusticated Doylestown red sandstone trim, including lintels, arch surrounds, sills, and lintels. The building features three towers, with square towers at the east and west corners with low-slope and pyramidal hipped roofs, and a large cylindrical tower at the south corner, which features a truncated conical roof, open belfry lantern, clock faces, and a pyramidal hipped roof supporting a flagpole. The building features one-over-one windows, arched bays with entrances on the first floor, brick corbeling at the base of the building’s hipped roof, parapets on the James street and Dickason Boulevard facades flanked by chimneys with the words “City Hall” and the year 1892 displayed on them in lettering, small windows on the third floor, and modified window bays at the west end of the James Street facade that used to house garage doors until the Fire Department moved out in 1948. The building also features remnants of metal fire escapes that once provided emergency egress from the second floor auditorium, and features a modified front entrance door on Dickason Boulevard with a modern aluminum storefront and vestibule, and an addition on the north side of the building, recessed behind a courtyard along Dickason Boulevard, which houses a modern staircase, elevator, and other support facilities, as well as a handicapped accessible entrance, and matches the brick exterior, mansard roof, and arched transoms of the historic building. Inside, the building features offices and a council chamber on the first floor, with a large auditorium or assembly hall on the second floor, which features a balcony on the third floor, as well as attic storage and mechanical space. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and is a contributing structure in the Columbus Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The building continues to serve as the city hall for Columbus.