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Monroe City Hall (Monroe, Georgia)

city hall in Monroe, Georgia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ55623645 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Monroe City Hall in Monroe, Georgia was built in 1939. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

It was designed by architects Daniel & Beutell in Art Deco style, and was built by John K. Davis & Son.

Editorial summary

“Monroe City Hall (Monroe, Georgia)” enters the record as city hall in Monroe, Georgia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Monroe, City and Hall can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 1983—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Monroe, City and Hall.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Monroe City Hall (Monroe, Georgia)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Monroe, City and Hall provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55623645. Authority coordinates are 33.792, -83.713. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1939 and 1983.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Monroe City Hall (Monroe, Georgia)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Monroe City Hall (Monroe, Georgia) primary sources, Monroe City Hall (Monroe, Georgia) archive and Monroe research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Monroe City Hall (Monroe, Georgia)”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Monroe City Hall (Monroe, Georgia)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.