Indianapolis City-County Building

City-County Building
General information
Type	Government offices
Location	200 East Washington Street, Indianapolis, Indiana
Coordinates	39°46′04.5″N 86°09′20.75″W / 39.767917°N 86.1557639°WCoordinates: 39°46′04.5″N 86°09′20.75″W / 39.767917°N 86.1557639°W
Completed	1962
Owner	Marion County Building Authority
Height
Roof	372 ft (113 m)
Technical details
Floor count	28
Design and construction
Architect	Wright, Porteous & Lowe/Bonar; Lennox, Matthews, Simmons & Ford, Inc.
Structural engineer	J. M. Rotz Engineering Co.

The Indianapolis City-County Building is a 28-story building at 200 E. Washington Street in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana that houses the offices of the consolidated city-county government of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, known as Unigov, in its 665,534 square feet ^[1] of office space. It also houses the Marion County Courts and the headquarters of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and the Indianapolis City-County Council. The office of the Mayor of Indianapolis is on the top floor of the Indianapolis City-County Building.^[2]

The building opened in 1962 after two years of construction,^[3] at a cost of $22 million.^[4] The City-County Building was the first building in the city to be taller than the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, and was the tallest building in the city until 1970.^[3]

References

1. "Mayor drops plan to privatize City-County Building". Indianapolis Business Journal. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
2. Price, Nelson (2004). Indianapolis Then & Now. San Diego, California: Thunder Bay Press. p. 38. ISBN 1-59223-208-6.
3. "City-County Building, Indianapolis". Emporis. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
4. Caldwell, Howard; Jones, Darryl (1990). Goodall, Kenneth, ed. Indianapolis. Bloomington, Indiana, United States: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-32998-1. Retrieved 2008-12-25.

External links

• City-County Building at SkyscraperPage