Editing Burbank, California (section)

===City Hall===
[[File:Burbank City Hall (DSCF0794-DSCF0798).jpg|thumb|right|Burbank City Hall]]

In 1916, the original Burbank City Hall was constructed after bonds were issued to finance the project and pay for fire apparatus. Burbank's current City Hall was constructed from 1941 to 1942 in a neo-federalist Moderne style popular in the late Depression era. The structure was built at a total cost of $409,000, with funding from the [[Federal Works Agency]] and [[Works Project Administration]] programs. City Hall was designed by architects [[William H. Allen (architect)|William Allen]] and W. George Lutzi and completed in 1943.

Originally, the City Hall building housed all city services, including the police and fire departments, an emergency medical ward, a courthouse and a jail. One of the most distinctive features of the cream-colored concrete building is its {{convert|77|ft|m|adj=on}} tower, which serves as the main lobby. The lobby interior features more than 20 types of marble, which can be found in the city seal on the floor, the trim, walls and in the treads and risers of the grand stairway. Artist Hugo Ballin created a "Four Freedoms" mural in Burbank's City Council chambers during World War II, although it was covered up for decades until art aficionados convinced the city to have the mural fully revealed. Ballin's work illustrates the "Four Freedoms" outlined in President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s 1941 speech at the signing of the [[Atlantic Charter]].

In 1996, the City Hall was added to the [[U.S. National Register of Historic Places]], becoming the second building in Burbank to be listed on the register. The first was Burbank's main post office just blocks away from City Hall on Olive Avenue. In 1998, Burbank's state-of-the-art Police/Fire facility opened.