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Camp Peary - CIA's "The Farm"
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Camp Peary is a military reservation in York County near Williamsburg, Virginia. Officially it is referred to as the Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity (AFETA) under the auspices of the Department of Defense, but it is widely believed to be the location of a covert CIA training facility known as "The Farm".

Ladder truck
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Car pulled over by two police cars
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Speed Trap
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Ladder Truck Number 10
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Ladder Truck
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By: daggerwell.
@ fire station 24

Racine Police Dept. Impound Lot
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By: CheesyCheetah.
Get into trouble with the police in Racine, WI. and you'll find your car towed and stored here. The building on the property is also used to store vehicles that were used in major crimes.

Mahlamba Ndlopfu, the official residence for the President of South Africa
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By: ossewa.
Mahlamba Ndlopfu is the official residence for the President of South Africa in Bryntirion, Pretoria.
The house, formerly called Libertas, was designed by Architect Gerard Moerdijk in a traditional Cape Dutch style and completed in 1940 as the official residence for the Prime Minister of South Africa. It is surrounded by impressive gardens. Through the years, slight changes were made on the building. After the post of Prime Minister was abolished in 1984, it became the presidential residence. In 1995 the name of the residence was changed in the present-day name. Mahlamba Ndlopfu is a term of the Xitsonga language, the language of the Shangaan (or Tsonga) people. It means "The new dawn".

TV Series Castle Filming Location "NYPD's 12th precinct headquarters"
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By: fin.
From episode 1.01 to 3.12 the building of the NYPD's 9th precinct, is setting for the fabled 12th precinct headquarters of the tv series 'Castle'.
It is also exterior for other police tv series such as Cagney and Lacey, Kojak, NYPD Blue a. o.

Ladder truck
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By: kjfitz.

Del Valle Training Center - Los Angeles County Fire Department
Authorities prepare for the disasters of tomorrow at this 160 acre site in the hills north of Los Angeles. Del Valle is a training center used by several emergency response organizations, operated by the Los Angeles County fire department. On site are training props for search and rescue, hazardous spill recovery, and industrial accident training such as partially collapsed buildings, underground tunnels, rail cars, city busses, and a portion of an oil refinery structure.
Del Valle is located on a hill top and uses 160 acres of land that the county bought from Unocal in 1984. Much of the focus of Del Valle is technical rescue training. There are industrial props (including a portion of an oil refinery), vehicle accident props(including propane-powered bus collisions and a collapsed building prop ), concrete slab cutting props, shoring training props, confined space rescue props, and other urban search and rescue facilities. There is also a hazmat training area with railcars and a chemical storage building, and a fire extinguisher training area.

Rodman's Neck Firing Range
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By: skyeye.
The NYPD Rodman's Neck Firing Range is a 54 Acre police training facility in the Bronx. It is used for handgun and rifle practice by the NYPD, the FBI, HSI and to train probationary police officers. The base has 7 rifle ranges with 230 total firing points. The grounds include mock buildings for urban training scenarios, The area is also used for destroying unexploded bombs in a crater called "The Pit".
The range is to be re-located to a new police academy in Queens.
Zoom in the BEV view to see major modification at the southern end of the site.

Gracie Mansion
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By: mlc1us.
In 1942 New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia opted to live in Gracie Mansions instead of his palatial residence on Riverside Drive. Since then it has served as the mayoral residence.

Ladder Truck
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Ghostbuster Firehouse

Edward M. Davis Training Center - Los Angeles Police Department
Very detailed photos in the More Info link.
Much of the grounds are occupied by the 4.4 miles of vehicle training track of the LAPDs Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (EVOC), used to teach driving techniques. One of only two large EVOCs in Southern California, the Ed Davis facility has two skid pans, a collision avoidance simulator, an inner city street grid, and a high speed track with blind driveways, sharp turns, and elevation changes.
The 137,000 square foot main building has electronic driving simulators, offices, classrooms, firing ranges, and a maintenance garage for EVOC vehicles.
Located between the main building and the EVOC is the most postmodern civilian tactical training village in Southern California. The Situation-Simulator Village, as it is also called, has a gas station, bank, bar, convenience store, hotel, house, and coffee shop. The village is used by officers for advanced training, and for the production of training videos. Trainees use simunition and are fully protected with face shields and vests.

Police cars in the median
I'm guessing they are there for traffic control.

City Court of Karachi
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Ladder Truck
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Getty House (official residence of the Mayor of LA)
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Republic of Molossia
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By: WacoKidd110.
The Republic of Molossia is a micronation, founded by Kevin Baugh humorously as a "dictatorial banana-republic" and headquartered solely from a tiny home near Dayton, Nevada.
It consists of Baugh's house (known as Government House), backyard and front garden, about 1.3 acres (0.5 ha) of land, as well as another property surrounded on all sides by Nevada . It formerly claimed a property in Pennsylvania as well. According to author John Ryan, Molossia is "a hobby... that has been pushed... to the nth degree." Originally established as a childhood project in 1977, Molossia subsequently evolved into a territorial entity in the late 1990s.

Century house (former SIS HQ)
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By: giove.
SIS moved to Century house in 1964, a modern tower block in Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth. This was the Service's home for thirty years during the latter half of the Cold War.
In 1994 SIS moved to its present headquarters, Vauxhall Cross.
Now the tower is converted in modern flats

NYPD Driver Training
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By: skyeye.
The Drivers Education & Training Section of the New York City Police Department uses this runway at Floyd Bennett Field for police driver training in a variety of vehicles.

New Scotland Yard
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By: jphilb.
Home of the Metropolitan Police or "the Met".
Best view in Google Earth but still can't see the revolving triangle sign.

California Highway Patrol Headquarters
Note the extensive training tracks. High speed to the west and urban to the NE. This is also the location of the CHP Academy.

"Parking Wars" Impound Lot
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By: mlc1us.
The site of much frustration by people who's cars were towed for parking infractions, as shown in the A&E reality series "Parking Wars".

NYPD Security Camera
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By: skyeye.
This is one of thousands of New York City Police Department cameras in Manhattan.

Board Office of Secondary Education Karachi
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Alameda County Sheriff's Department Explosive Ordnance Disposal Range (used by Mythbusters)
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By: Parabellum.
This is where the Mythbusters go to blow things up.

Fake town - Orange County Sherriff's Tactical Training Center
The Tactical Training Center, in the City of Orange, is one of the most realistic simulated police training villages in the state, and trains thousands of officers, agents, and private security company employees from the western United States. Like the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s tactical village at City Terrace, Orange County’s Tactical Training Center was built as a “laser village” in the 1980’s, when practice weapons emitted a laser light, and “victims” wore vests that electronically detected the approximate strike of the beam. Now small dye-filled simunitions are used.

Houston Police Academy driving course
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By: bonjbrown.

Toronto City Hall
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By: rexlong.
Toronto's City Hall sits in Nathan Phillips Square.

King's House
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By: hhgygy.

Philadelphia City Hall
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By: levinmo.
City Hall w/ William Penn statue
Philadelphia's City Hall is the nation's largest and its Gothic tower offers a 30-mile panoramic view of the city. Construction began in 1871 and was completed thirty years later in 1901. The architectural style is know as French Second Empire.

Invicta House
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By: chaswatson.
Invicta House, built circa 1983, is the home to some 1200 staff working for Kent County Council.

Old Jackson County Courthouse
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By: Parabellum.

'Reedy Creek (Disneyworld's) Fire Department' by Venturi Scott Brown
The Reedy Creek Fire Department provides fire and emergency medical services to all of Walt Disney World. Disney World is about the same size as San Francisco or twice the size of Manhattan Island in land area.
Normal shift complement consists of 3 engine companies with either 4 or 5 firefighters, 7 A.L.S. ambulances with a crew of two, two tower (aerial) trucks (one designed specifically for monorail evacuations), an A.L.S. squad for extrication and HAZMAT mitigation, 1 tanker for water supply, 3 woods trucks to fight brush and wildland fires, 2 EMS supervisors with the rank of battalion chief, and an assistant fire chief. During park hours a team of two paramedics/EMTs is stationed in each of the four theme parks and at Pleasure Island to respond quickly to EMS incidents within their assigned area. All apparatus is staffed by Florida certified firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics. All firefighters are also certified as fire inspectors and play an active role in the fire prevention program.
There are three fire stations on property: one adjacent to Epcot, one near Animal Kingdom, and one behind the MagicKingdom. A fourth station will soon be built near Downtown Disney.
The department has about 150 firefighters/EMT/Paramedics, about a dozen and a half fire inspectors, and 9 dispatchers, 2 assistant communications supervisors, and 1 communications supervisor who reports to an assistant chief for communications and information. The dispatchers are officially called Communicators.

Hill Street Blues
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By: jbottero.
Part of the title sequence of Hill Street Blues, shows the Maxwell Street Precinct House. It is located at the junction of Maxwell Street and Morgan Street in Chicago.

North Net Fire Training Center

Cotroceni Palace
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By: DonMartini.
Cotroceni Palace is a palace of Bucharest which is the residence of the President of Romania, located at Bulevardul Geniului, nr. 1.
On Cotroceni hill, in 1679 Şerban Cantacuzino built a monastery and this was the place where a palace was built by French architect Paul Gottereau for King Carol I of Romania in 1888.
In 1977, Nicolae Ceauşescu made the palace a guest house and the old church of Cantacuzino was demolished in 1985. Since 1991, it has been the residence of the Romanian President; also the National Cotroceni Museum is open to the public.
During the time when Ion Iliescu was president, the press reported that an owl had settled in the park which surrounds Cotroceni Palace. In Romanian folklore, an owl is said to be a funerary bird that announces the imminent death of somebody, as the hooting of the owl is likened to a mourning call. For this reason, it is alleged that a hunter was hired to shoot the owl.

Kecksburg Fire Department (UFO site)
jbottero (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jbottero.
NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court.
The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Traffic was tied up in the area as curiosity seekers drove to the area, only to be kept away from the crash site by soldiers.
The Air Force's explanation for the unidentified flying object: a meteor or meteors.
Eyewitnesses said a flatbed truck drove away a large object shaped like an acorn and about the size of a Volkswagen bus. A mock-up based on the descriptions of local residents sits behind the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department.
http://www.kecksburgvfd.com/UFO_Store.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305687,00.html

NYC Public Safety Answering Center II
The proposed public facility, to be operated by the New York City Police Department (NYPD), the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), and the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (NYCDOITT), would function as a parallel operation to the existing PSAC I in Downtown Brooklyn and would augment and provide redundancy to the current emergency 911 response services in New York City. It would serve as a streamlined emergency call intake and dispatch center for all of the City’s first responders, including the NYPD, FDNY, and the Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and would also house command control center operations for the FDNY and the NYPD to coordinate emergency response throughout the entire city at a centralized location. The proposed facility would consist of a single office building and an accessory parking garage (“proposed development”).
PSAC I:

Rampart Division, LAPD
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By: jbottero.
The Rampart Division of the Los Angeles Police Department serves communities to the west and northwest of Downtown Los Angeles including Echo Park, Pico-Union and Westlake, all together designated as the Rampart patrol area. Its name is derived from Rampart Boulevard, one of the principal thoroughfares in its patrol area. The station house was located at 2710 West Temple Street in Westlake. It has since moved east into a newly constructed facility at 1401 West 6th Street, the site of the former emergency receiving hospital. With 375,000 residents occupying a 7.9-square-mile (20 km2) area, Rampart is Los Angeles's most densely populated community.

"Drop and give me twenty!"
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By: Pdunn.
Police training in progress. Check out the various firing ranges and assault courses also in use.

Forsyth County, Georgia Courthouse
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City Hall, London
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By: stuartwr.
Home to the Greater London Authority and the office of London Mayor 'our' Ken Livingstone.

Shooting Range at LAPD Academy
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By: AKpilotEMT.

Buffalo City Hall
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Abandoned Detroit Public Schools Book Depository
The building was originally the city's main post office. A tunnel between the warehouse and the Michigan Central Station across the street shuttled mail brought in from all over the country by train. After a few decades of use, the post office moved and the Detroit Public Schools purchased the warehouse for their main depository of school supplies and records. As many as 75 to 100 people worked there at any given time.
On March 4, 1987, at 9:20 a.m., a fire broke out at the Roosevelt Warehouse. It spread rapidly through stacks of books on the third floor. More than 100 firefighters spent hours dousing the flames with thousands of gallons of water, but the building was effectively destroyed. At the time, school officials measured the damage at "several million dollars for the contents alone."
According to Reginald Ciokajlo, then superintendent of support services, the district was lucky that most of that year's textbooks and materials had already been delivered and none of the principals had placed their orders for the next school year's textbooks. School and student records going back to 1918 were destroyed.
After the fire, the Detroit Public Schools abandoned the Roosevelt warehouse and eventually started storing supplies at a new location.

Ottawa City Hall
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Homan Square Police Warehouse - 'black site'
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By: Mike1989.
Chicago's CIA-Style Black Site

Policija Brčko Distrikta (Brcko Police)
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By: romulusnr.

Safety Town
Safety Town facility was completed in September, 1991. This state-of-the-art facility, designed to teach the Village's younger residents safety at home, school and play includes a classroom, pond, miniature buildings, streets, sidewalks and a real train caboose.

Providence City Hall
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By: AlbinoFlea.
From www.providenceri.com:
The architectural design of City Hall was crafted by Samuel J. F. Thayer, (Aug. 20, 1842- Mar. 1, 1893) a native of Boston. Providence City Hall was one of his first successes which led to other public commissions: the town halls in Brookline and Stoughton, Massachusetts, as well as the Nevins Memorial in Methuen, Massachusetts.
His plan was chosen from four finalists out of a total of 21 entries, each given a name such as "Fait," "Maltese Cross," and "Blue Wafer" to avoid any favoritism through identification with the architect.
Thayer's "Blue Wafer" plan was selected, and he was awarded $1,000. He described his design as "renaissance, of the character widely adopted for civic buildings in the most advanced cities of the world."
His plan proposed a tall, cathedral-like tower (see rendering in Archives) and floor dimensions deemed too large and costly by the committee. Consequently, the plan was modified, and the tower replaced with a modest mansard roof to meet the budget. The revised cost estimated by Thayer was just under the $635,000 that the Council was prepared to spend. Eventually, the cost of City Hall exceeded even this budget, totaling over one million dollars.
The building's construction is of iron and brick, faced with Westerly granite on the Dorrance and Washington Street sides and New Hampshire granite on the other two sides.The sidewalks are granite blocks, 5 to 6 feet wide and 18 to 20 feet long. The entire structure was built on an artificial foundation set atop 3,128 pilings driven deep into the underlying hardpan.
The cornerstone was set in place on June 24, 1875. After three years in construction, the city's first municipal government building became operational on November 14, 1878.
The early days -- Workers in the City Clerks Office shortly after City Hall opened. Note gas lamps.Electricity was installed soon thereafter.
City Hall then became the geographic and governmental center of the city, and its workers moved into what was the finest post-Civil War civic building in the state.When City Hall opened, it comprised a subbasement, basement (today's ground floor), and four upper floors. Gas light fixtures, some of which remain in place today, lighted all the rooms.

Entry to Rikers Island, "Home of New York's Boldest"
Rikers Island is New York City's main jail complex.

Los Angeles City Hall
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By: daggerwell.

Vilniaus Rotušė (Vilnius Town Hall)
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By: AlbinoFlea.
From www.vilnius.lt:
The building was designed at the end of the 18th century by the famous architect, Laurynas Stuoka-Gucevicius (1753-1798). The square, two-story structure, with its six Doric columns supporting its portico, faces a triangular square, looking out on the beginning of Pilies (Castle) Street. At the other end of Pilies Street stands another of the architect's creations, his masterpiece, the Cathedral. The buildings he designed connect the most important parts of Old Town: the Castle, seat of the Grand Duke, and the Town Hall, symbolizing the city's self-governance.
In 1387, the Lithuanian Grand Duke and Polish King, Jogaila, granted Vilnius the right of self-rule follooving the example of Magdeburg. A short time later, the city built the Town Hall (in German, "das Rathaus"), the seat of the City Council. The Town Hall is mentioned as early as 1432 to be standing in the same spot where its successor is now. Only Gothic basements are left from the old Town Hall of Vilnius. In 1572, Braun and Hohenberg's Atlas of European Cities pictured the Town Hall with a tower reaching for the sky. In the 17th century, the Town Hall clock was installed in it and bells were hung, in order to notify residents as to when to put out their lights or to warn them of some danger.
In the 17th century, the Town Hall contained courts, the burgomaster's office, the- merchants' council, the archives, a weapons room, a prison (near the gates), and, in the square itself, a place for punishment, the so-called poles of shame. All around the Town Hall were rows of stalls built with city funds.
The misfortunes of the city and the state did not leave the Town Hall unscathed. In 1610, there was a fire. From 1655 to 1661, there was the war with Russia. At the beginning of the 18th century, there was the Northern War. The Town Hall was often repaired and rebuilt. In 1748, a fire, starting near the Subacius gates, scorched the city, and the Town Hall went up in smoke, too. The task of restoring the building was entrusted to the well-known Vilnius architect, Jonas Kristupas Gliaubicius. The 138- foot-tall tower was reconstructed, two bells were hoisted to its peak, and a clock was installed below them. Architect T. Russelis finished the work in 1769. However, the restored tower a short time later began to sway. In 1781, the magistrate appealed for help to an architect, L. Stuoka-Gucevicius, who had just returned from abroad and at that time was building the Verkiai mansion for Bishop Ignas Masalskis. The young architect prepared a daring proposal for shoring up the tower, but he was not in time. Having just begun the work, on 19 June 1781, the tower collapsed with a roar, damaging the Town Hall building in the process. The same year, the architect drew up a proposal for a new tower, which a commission rejected. In 1786, he again submitted a proposal for reconstruction, three of them, in fact. They had to be approved by King Stanislovas Augustas Poniatovskis himself. At first, the architect proposed a more ambitious building, an extended acute-angled building, ending in a cross, with a side facade of colonnades and with a high, round tower adjacent to the rear facade. But a cheaper and more modest tower less design was chosen instead. Construction began in 1788, and then changing political fortunes put a halt to it. The second partition of the Commonwealth in 1793, Tadas Kosciuszka's rebellion in its wake, and the third partition of the Commonwealth in 1795, along with Lithuania's annexation by Russia, did not help matters along. The ?own Hall was finally finished in 1799, after the architect's death.
In 1845, it was decided to move the magistrate out of the Town Hall and reconstruct the building to serve as a town theater. The theater operated in the Town Hall until 1924. The building was no longer appropriate for the magistrate office's needs, so a Vilnius architect, Steponas Narembskis, submitted a proposal to restore the building for use in an official, representative role. From 1936 to 1939, the columns that had been torn down were restored and wide steps with marble banisters leading from the covered courtyard to the second floor were built. These changes harmoniously blended in with the interior.
However, the Town Hall is only now beginning to be used for the representative function it was intended for. In 1939, upon Lithuanians recovery of Vilnius, the Town Hall was completely restored, but in the autumn of 1940, by order of the Soviet authorities, the city's government was set up in it, and later, the State Art Museum was moved there. In 1995, the Art Museum moved to the Chodkevicius mansion, and the Town Hall was given back to the municipal government on 1 January 1998 The city authorities decided that the most appropriable use for the Town Hall was exactly that function which would best recall its historic past: a place for city celebrations, as in many of the old Town Halls of Europe.

Mairie du 4e Arrondissement de Paris
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By: kaiken.
Town hall of the 4th arrondissement of Paris

Butler County Courthouse
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By: neotrix.
The current structure is the third courthouse to have been built for the county. James P. Bailey, who was responsible for the construction of Old Main at Geneva College became the architect of the new courthouse after the second one was destroyed by a fire in 1883. Bailey's courthouse still stands today, and is currently the tallest structure in downtown Butler.
The Butler County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

Islington Town Hall
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London Borough of Islington
Area(sq km):14.86
Population Density(persons per sq km):11830

Hammersmith and Fulham Town Hall
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By: kaiken.
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Area(sq km):16.40
Population Density(persons per sq km):10076

Bellevue City Hall
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By: romulusnr.
Formerly the site of the Qwest Building, the new city hall was opened in early 2006.
The cost of the highly anticipated building was almost $20 million over budget, causing a local controversy of mixed feelings.

Chicago Police Black Site
This former Sears warehouse is now a facility of the Chicago Police Department. According to media reports (see links) prisoners are held incommunicado here, with no official record of their detention.

Philadelphia City Hall

Indianola Town Square & the former Warren County Courthouse
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Stormont House
Stormont House (also called Speakers House) served as the official residence of the Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. It was designed by Ralph Knott, an architect best known for his work on County Hall in London. For part of the time it was actually lived in by a number of Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland in preference to their own official residence, Stormont Castle, which was used primarily as offices. Many speakers in this period had already opted to live elsewhere.

Altes Rathaus Bonn (Old City Hall)
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By: DonMartini.
The town hall brilliantly dominates the three-cornered market place. In 1737, Elector Clemens August laid the foundation stone for this impressive building at the place of an older Gothic building, whose architect was Michel Leveilly, who also constructed the magnificent “Koblenzer Tor”. The town hall’s flight of outdoor stairs with its golden grating had been the scene of historical events for several times already: Gottfried Kinkel wove the black-red-golden flag here in 1848, and Theodor Heuss, the first Federal President, stepped in front of Bonn’s citizens the night he was elected on September 12, 1949.
Today, the Lord Mayoress escorts VIPs into the town hall over the stairs with the golden grating, as her predecessors did in the past. In 1962, Charles de Gaulle, the French President of the State, delivered an address here, and US President John F. Kennedy did so in 1963. The list would become quite long, if all emperors, kings and presidents, as well as all world stars from the sectors of music and sports were to mention here who visited Bonn. For more than 700 years the town hall from the Rococo era and its predecessor building has been the seat of the citizens’ self-government. Since 1971, it has also been the scenery for the open-air cultural programme called “Bonner Sommer”.

Montgomery County Courthouse
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By: 1JonKing.
The first Montgomery County courthouse was built from logs in 1796 by James Adams. It sat close to the riverbank on the corner of what is now present-day Riverside Drive and Washington Street. It was later replaced by a second courthouse built in 1805, and a third in 1806, with the land provided by Henry Small. The fourth courthouse was built in 1811, and the first to be built of brick. It was constructed on the east half of Public Square, with the land donated by Martin Armstrong. In 1843, yet another courthouse was built, this time on Franklin Street. It would remain standing until the Great Fire of 1878.
The sixth and current courthouse was built between Second and Third Streets, with the cornerstone laid on May 16, 1879. This particular building was designed by George W. Bunting of Indianapolis, Indiana. Five years later, the downtown area was hit by a tornado, which damaged the roof of the courthouse. The building was rebuilt. On March 12, 1900, the building was again ravaged by fire, with the upper floors gutted and the clock tower destroyed. Many citizens wanted the courthouse torn down and replaced with a safer one, but the judge refused and repaired the damage.
The courthouse was destroyed once again by the January 22, 1999 tornado. The building of another new courthouse was on the minds of locals, but in the end the courthouse was fully restored as a county office building. On the fourth anniversary of the disaster the courthouse was rededicated. In addition to the restoration of the original courthouse and plazas, a new courts center was built on its north side.

Loma Ridge Emergency Operations Center
The Emergency Management department of Orange County exists to coordinate control in the event of a major local disaster, such as an earthquake, terrorist attack, or accident at the San Onofre nuclear power plant. The command center for such events is this hilltop facility, visible from many points in the eastern parts of the County, on top of Loma Ridge. In addition to extensive communication capabilities, the EOC has stores of fuel, food and water, and can serve 140 emergency authorities in self-contained mode for up to two weeks. It is also a county police 911 call center.

Allegheny County Courthouse
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By: CEMaine.
The most lasting and well-known symbol of Allegheny County is the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail complex, designed in 1883 by Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson, and built between 1884-1888.
These internationally recognized historic structures reflect Hobson's stature as one the greatest architects in the history of American architecture, and continue to draw visitors from throughout the world who marvel at the buildings' simple style, dignity and strength.

Civic Centre
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By: shaheen.
This is a center for Vehicle registration and land allotment.

Market House
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By: milwhcky.
From gofayetteville.com:
The Market House was built in 1832 on the site of the old State House, which was destroyed by fire in 1831. It was within the walls of the State House that North Carolina had ratified the Constitution of the United States in 1789 and chartered the University of North Carolina. Also here North Carolina ceded her western lands to form the state of Tennessee.
The focal point of downtown Fayetteville, the Market House sits in the center of the intersection of Green, Gillespie, Person, and Hay Streets. For decades meat and produce were sold beneath its arches by local farmers, while the second floor was the town hall. In recent years the second floor has been used as a public library, chamber of commerce offices, and an art museum. Many distinguished visitors have spoken from its balconies.
Architecturally unique in North Carolina, the Market House is one of the few structures in America to use this town hall-market scheme found in England. The clock chimes the hours and the bell in the cupola still rings at 7:30 AM for breakfast, at 1:00 PM for dinner, at sundown, and at 9:00 PM, once the curfew hour.

Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse
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Illus W. Davis Park is immediately to the south of this building.

Chicago City Hall Green Roof

2nd Battalion Headquarters (Union Avenue Fire Station)
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Wake County Fire/Rescue Training Center
The Fire/Rescue Training Center serves as a training facility for fire and rescue department personnel in Wake County. Classrooms are available at this facility as well as a live burn building, training tower and flammable/combustible liquid pits.

Milwaukee City Hall
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From Wikipedia:
The Milwaukee City Hall, at 353 feet (108 m) tall, is one of the oldest standing skyscrapers. It is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. It was finished in 1895 and at the time was the third tallest structure in the nation. The hall has a distinctive red hue.
Milwaukee City Hall was designed by architect Henry Koch in Richardsonian-Romanesque style with a Flemish-German Renaissance Revival influence. Due to Milwaukee's historic German immigrant population, many of the surrounding buildings mirror this design. The foundation consists of 2,500 cedar piles which were driven in to the marshy land surrounding the Milwaukee River. The upper part of the tower was rebuilt after a fire in October 1929. As of 2005, the entire buildling is being renovated.
City Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and declared a National Historic Landmark in 2005.
City Hall was the marketing symbol of Milwaukee until the completion of the Calatrava wing of the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2001, but the bell tower continues to be used as a municipal icon.
The bell in City Hall was named after Solomon Juneau, Milwaukee's first mayor. It was designed and crafted by the Campbells, who were early pioneers in creating diving chambers and suits near the Great Lakes area during that time.

Building shaped like a Pagoda
Built between 1906 to 1908 for William Abbott Witman by Matz contractors. It was intended to be used as a hotel, but never was and was eventually turned over to the city of Reading.

H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse
Where you go when summoned for jury duty in Washington DC...
...which happens to also be how I spent my morning and afternoon...
From http://www.dccourts.gov/dccourts/about/history.jsp:
H. Carl Moultrie I was appointed an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 1972. Six years later, on June 22, 1978, he was appointed the court's first African American Chief Judge. He held that position until his death on April 9, 1986.
Chief Judge Moultrie developed a reputation as a hard, but fair judge who was seldom reversed. He received innumerable honors and awards from community organizations. In recognition of the unique leadership of Chief Judge H. Carl Moultrie, the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration in the District of Columbia named in his honor the courthouse that is located at 500 Indiana Avenue, N.W.

Palmetto Bay Village Center
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The former world headquarters of Burger King consisting of 3 buildings encompassing 300,000 square feet on 80 acres. This property was purchased by Grouper Financial, Inc. a privately-owned Miami-based real estate development company and has now been converted to perform a variety of uses such as municipal offices and class A office space.

Fake town - Ed Davis Tactical Simulator
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The Situation-Simulator Village, as it is also called, has a gas station, bank, bar, convenience store, hotel, house, and coffee shop. The village is used by officers for advanced training, and for the production of training videos. Trainees use simunition and are fully protected with face shields and vests.

Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul Filming Location "Courthouse"
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Filming location used in the popular AMC television series "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul".

Beverly Hills City Hall
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Monrovia City Hall
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New York City Fire Academy
The Bureau of Training and three other FDNY units operate at the New York City Fire Academy. The Academy is situated on 27 acres of land on Randall's Island near the hub or the Triboro Bridge connecting the three boroughs of Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. This training center is adjacent to 68 acres of parkland, an outdoor recreation area consisting of tennis courts; baseball, softball and soccer fields; and walking, jogging and cycling paths.

Clacton Pier RNLI lifeboat station

Former Rampart Division, LAPD
The Rampart Division of the Los Angeles Police Department serves communities to the west and northwest of Downtown Los Angeles including Echo Park, Pico-Union and Westlake, all together designated as the Rampart patrol area. Its name is derived from Rampart Boulevard, one of the principal thoroughfares in its patrol area. The station house was located at 2710 West Temple Street in Westlake. It has since moved east into a newly constructed facility at 1401 West 6th Street, the site of the former emergency receiving hospital. With 375,000 residents occupying a 7.9-square-mile (20 km2) area, Rampart is Los Angeles's most densely populated community.

Rochdale Town Hall
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a fine Victorian Town Hall, finished in 1871. The original clock tower was destroyed by fire in 1883, and the present tower was designed by Alfred Waterhouse in 1887. The stained glass window, which is in the southernmost part of the building, was supposed to be one of Hitler's top-priority items for acquisition, should he win the war. This town hall is built directly next to the underground location where the River Roch flows underneath the town. The front of the town hall has gargoyles, as well as golden statues of lions which have the emblems of Rochdale, Lancashire and Yorkshire on them. These are said to be a commemoration of the peace between the two counties, Rochdale being one of the towns helping to achieve it. The town hall is also home to the memorial for those who lost their lives during the war. It has four flags, and is dedicated to those whose memory will live on.

Asheville's City Building
From http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112120/cbhistory.htm:
The City Building of Asheville was built between 1926-1928 . The building's structure emerges from the ground in fortress-like style. It is constructed out of Georgia Pink marble, brick, and terra cotta. The prevailing ornament is the feather motif reminiscent of the Native American epoch. The roof is the logo of the City of Asheville. The total cost of the building was just over fifty cents a cubic foot.
The City Building of Asheville has become recognized as one of Douglas Ellington's greatest works in Asheville. The City Building was put on the National Register of Historic Places on July 11, 1976.

Grand Turk Courthouse

Lynn City Hall

Fire Department Roof Training Prop
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The largest rooftop training prop in Southern California. It is a structural skeleton of a building, with a large flat roof area, and a tall pitched roof area. Located nearby is a rescue house made from 2 stacked shipping containers, a confined space training area, and salvage vehicles used in cutting for victim extraction.

San Pedro
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Edmonton City Hall

Sheffield Town Hall
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Sheffield Town Hall is a building in the City of Sheffield, England. The building is used by the City Council, and also contains a publicly displayed collection of silverware. The current building, Sheffield's fourth town hall, is located on Pinstone Street. It was designed by the London-based architect E. W. Mountford and constructed over a seven year period from 1890 to 1897, opening on 21 May 1897. An extension designed by F. E. P. Edwards was completed in 1923.
The design echoed to a certain extent the architecture of the adjacent St. Paul's Church of 1720 (now demolished). The exterior is built of "Stoke" stone from the Stoke Hall Quarry in Grindleford, Derbyshire and is decorated with carvings by F. W. Pomeroy. The friezes depict the industries of Sheffield, and the 64 metre high clock-tower is surmounted by a statue of Vulcan. During construction, the building was criticised for its expensive embellishments.
The building was opened by Queen Victoria, using a remote control lock from her carriage. The turning of the key in the lock triggered a light in the building which was the signal for three concealed men to open the gates.

Port-au-Prince Police Headquarters

County Hall (Old Sessions House)
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Kent County Council is based in Maidstone in County Hall that was formerly known as the Sessions House and was designed by Robert Smirke in 1824. The building is Grade II listed and runs along the south west face of Maidstone Prison.

Wandsworth Town Hall
London Borough of Wandsworth
Area(sq km):34.26
Population Density(persons per sq km):7600

Milwaukee County Courthouse
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Built in 1931. 11 stories tall.

Lexington History Museum (former Fayette County Courthouse)
From www.lexingtonhistorymuseum.org:
Incorporated in 2000, the Lexington History Museum, Inc. opened in the former Fayette County Courthouse in October 2003 in a partnership with the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government.
Also, from www.uky.edu:
The old Fayette County Courthouse in Lexington was completed about 1898. It was the fifth courthouse, the fourth on the site, and is now home to the Lexington History Museum.