City Hall (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

The hall was built between 1888 and 1889, and was largely funded through a donation from Frederick Hastings Rindge.

The building is three stories tall, with a bell tower that rises to 158 feet.

Load-bearing stone walls are of Milford granite trimmed with Longmeadow brownstone.

On May 17, 2004, shortly after midnight, the first legal applications in the United States for marriage licenses for same-sex couples were issued at Cambridge City Hall.

At 9:15 a.m. that day, the Cambridge City Clerk began solemnizing same-sex marriages.