Keywords: CityHallPetersburgVA.jpeg 78003185 en Old U S Customs House Post Office 129-141 North Union Street Petersburg VA Now City Hall CALL NUMBER HABS VA 27-PET 31- Historic American Buildings Survey creator Survey number HABS VA-659 Building/structure dates 1858 initial construction 1870 subsequent work1910 subsequent work Significance This building was designed by Ammi B Young first Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury in the Italian Renaissance style During the War between the States it housed the Confederate military authorities while the roof was a Confederate signal station and a favorite place from which to view the fighting on the eastern front HABS at Library of Congress http //memory loc gov/pnp/habshaer/va/va0300/va0365/photos/160920pv jpg Katherine Wetzel HABS employee summer 1981 PD-USGov National Register of Historic Places in Petersburg Virginia City halls in Virginia |