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Minsk Town Hall. It was first mentioned in documents in 1582. The Town Hall is located in the Upper Market Square (Cathedral, Svobody). In 1640 the building was damaged during a fire and rebuilt. After the destruction in the 18th century the town hall was restored in 1744 under the leadership of C. Vojta Burzhinski. In the late 18th century the reconstruction was undertaken by architect F. Kramer, as the result of which the Town Hall had acquired the features of classicism. A two-storey rectangular in plan building was covered with a shallow hip roof. The central part was highlighted with a rizalit with three-flight stairway, accentuated by a quadrangular tower, completed with a dome with a spire and weather vane. The rizalit and the ends of the building are solved by four-pillar porticos of the Ionic order. In the decoration wrought iron fences of balconies were used in porticos and on the tower. As a result of the reconstruction of 1819 a stone wall, decorated with stucco and beautiful compositions was added to the town hall.A regular square was laid out around the Town Hall. In the years 1825-1835 the side porticos were completed by pediments. A magistrate, court, police, archive were in the house, in 1830 a Music school got there. In 1847 the hall on the first floor was adapted for the theatre. In 1857 the building of the town hall was destroyed by order of Nicholai I; it was restored in 2004 (headed by S. Baglasov). On the first floor there is a hall for meetings and reception of honourable guests, on the ground floor the Museum of Minsk is situated.
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