The city hall was built in the Mediterranean Revival architectural style.

Phineas Paist and Harold Steward were the architects; Denman Fink was the artistic advisor.

[2] It is three stories tall, built of local limestone, has a stuccoed exterior, tile roof, central 3-stage clock tower, and a Corinthian colonnade.

It was major element in the plan of George E. Merrick, founder of Coral Gables, to create a Spanish-Mediterranean city.

This article about a property in Miami-Dade County, Florida on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.