The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a historic building in Roubaix, Nord, northern France, standing on the Grand Place.
When the house became dilapidated, the council moved to Sainte-Elisabeth Hospital in 1792: a tetrastyle portico was added to the building, to give it more grandeur, in 1810.
[2] By the 1840s, the council had ambitions for a building which demonstrated its wealth as a major wool-trading centre and a new town hall was erected on the south side of the Grand Place to a design by Achille-Joseph Dewarlez in 1848.
[5] The main block and the right pavilion were designed by Victor Laloux in the Baroque style, built in ashlar stone and were officially opened by the Minister of Commerce, Alfred Massé, in time for the International Exhibition of the North of France on 30 April 1911.
[2] In October 1914, during the First World War, a company of the 165th Bavarian Regiment of Infantry occupied Roubaix with its headquarters in the town hall.