The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is the local seat of government in Le Havre, Normandy, France.
[1] The Hôtel de Ville was commissioned to replace a 19th century town hall, which was designed by Charles Brunet-Debaine in the Châteauesque style, built in ashlar stone and completed in 1857.
After Perret died in February 1954, Jacques Tournant supervised the development of the design until the building was officially opened on 14 July 1958.
[7] A theatre, adjoining the Hôtel de Ville to the east, was inaugurated in October 1967,[8][9][10] and a large extension to the north, designed in an unsympathetic style, was completed in 1987.
[11] By moving the car parking underground, the city council was able to create a huge garden, involving over 50,000 plants, on a site to the south of the Hôtel de Ville in 1990.