Key facts
- Status
- Listed buildings in Sweden (since 26 January 1981 )
- Type
- Town hall
- Architectural style
- Dutch Renaissance Revival architecture
- Location
- Rådhustorget, Umeå, Sweden
- Owner
- Umeå kommun
- Architect
- Fredrik Olaus Lindström
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
A photo of Umeå Town Hall in 1902 Rådhusparken.
Umeå Town Hall (Swedish: Umeå rådhus) was built after the fire in 1888 that burnt the city to the ground. It was erected on the site where the previous town hall (built in the 17th century) had been located and was completed in 1890. The architect was Fredrik Olaus Lindström from Stockholm. In the new urban area development plan Lindström gave the town hall a prominent location next to the river bank, with the main facade facing south over the harbour on the Ume River (which was still navigable at the time, providing the city's main point of access).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Umeå rådhus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.