It was designed by Paul-Eugène Lequeux in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone at a cost of FFr 84,000 and was officially opened by the mayor, Constant Sébastien Grébaut, in 1858.

The central section of three bays, which was slightly projected forward, featured a tetrastyle portico formed by Doric order pilasters supporting an entablature.

[7] During the Paris insurrection, part of the Second World War, German troops opened fire indiscriminately at a crowd of people assembled in front of the town hall on 21 August 1944.

[9] Activists opposed to Algerian independence, acting on behalf of the Organisation armée secrète, detonated a plastic bomb in a telephone booth on the ground floor of the town hall on the afternoon of 24 April 1961.

[10][11][12] The police and library annex was demolished in the early 1980s, and replaced with large glass clad building, stretching back along Rue Albert Simonin, which was completed in 1983.