Photograph of Old Fort Pierce City Hall — Photograph by SebasTorrente, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Pierce City Hall, Old

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

“Located at 315 Avenue A, the Old Fort Pierce City Hall is a historic building in downtown Fort Pierce, Florida. Designed with both Mediterranean Revival Style and Italian Renaissance Revival elements by architect William Hatcher, the structure was built in 1925 at the peak of the Florida land boom by builder C.E.”
Wikipedia article Old Fort Pierce City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for St. Lucie County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 315 Avenue A, Fort Pierce, 34950
When was it listed? December 2001
Category. building
Census division. Fort Pierce
Architectural style. Mediterranean Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 01001338 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Fort Pierce City Hall, Old, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet covering Fort Pierce City Hall, Old, surveyed 1949

Fires near this property

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Fort Pierce City Hall, Old between 1992 and 2020, burning about 608 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 September 1996	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 August 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 August 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(SL) AIRPORT (1342)
15 August 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Lucie County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Fort Pierce City Hall, Old: 14 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Stewart - Stewart Mine	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Airport Mine	Silica	Producer
North Pit	Silica	Producer
Ralls Mine	Silica	Producer
Saggy Pit	Silica	Producer
Minton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Morgan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
North Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
South Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
St. Lucie Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lucie County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Pierce, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 1995	Hail	Fort Pierce	$500	Severe thunderstorms dropped baseball-size hail near Oslo Road, 10 miles southwest of Vero Beach, and near Fort Pierce. Numerous cars were damaged and windows were broken in two mobile homes.

Every storm recorded in St. Lucie County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1949 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1950 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1972 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1972 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:10000
1981 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Arcade Building	under 500 feet	2001
Fort Pierce Old Post Office	under 500 feet	2002
Sunrise Theatre	0.2 miles	2001
Moores Creek Bridge	0.2 miles	2001
Cresthaven	0.2 miles	1985
St. Anastasia Catholic School, Old	0.4 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001338 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lucie County	All 16 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.