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Building, Marine City, since 1884

Marine City City Hall

Still standing, photographed 2012

Marine City City Hall (Marine City, Michigan), 2012 Photo: Notorious4life at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Opened
1884
Style
Queen Anne
Standing
142 years

Designed by George D. Mason

The Marine City City Hall has stood on Broadway Street in Marine City since 1884, 142 years and counting. Who built it, what makes it special and how to see it for yourself.

What is there now

Standing

We checked building permits, sales, listings and the city's blight and demolition files on October 25, 2026. Nothing new at this address in the last two years.

The story

The Marine City City Hall opened in 1884, in the decades its town grew around the railroad and the mill.

Credit the design to George D. Mason, working in Queen Anne.

The National Register of Historic Places listed it in 1982.

Go see it at 300 Broadway Street. Photos never get the scale right.

The Marine City City Hall is a former government building located at 300 Broadway Street in Marine City, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. City government offices moved out of the building in 2005.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Timeline

  1. 1884 Built Designed by George D. Mason
  2. 1982 Listed on the National Register January 11, 1982
  3. 2026 Today 142 years and still standing

Where it is

300 Broadway Street, Marine City

Who made it

George D. Mason
Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Architect

George D. Mason

American architect, 1856 to 1948. Designed the Lincoln Motor Company Plant (1917) and 39 more in Metro Detroit

Also by George D. Mason

Around the block

Photo credits

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  1. Marine City City Hall (Marine City, Michigan), 2012 Photo: Notorious4life at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

Facts only, gathered from these sources. The story above is written by Rebuild Detroit. Every photo names its author and license where it appears.