{"id":253576,"date":"2026-07-28T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253576\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:54:10","slug":"erie-city-hall-officially-added-to-national-register-of-historic-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253576\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie City Hall officially added to National Register of Historic Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WJET Erie;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WJET Erie\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aol_wjet_erie_articles_147.png\"\/><\/a>Updated Mon, July 27, 2026 at 10:37 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/604ff8cf-68eb-498d-a12b-10056bcfb850.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Erie City Hall is now officially on the National Register of Historic Places. <\/p>\n<p>This kind of federal recognition can open a lot of doors for the city, including access to more grants.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/erie-firefighters-advance-to-nationals-at-regional-firefighter-challenge\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tErie firefighters advance to nationals at Regional Firefighter Challenge\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Erie City Hall was originally built in the mid-1960s, and the city has maintained many of its original features.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreservation is a way of looking at change and talking about what\u2019s important and what we want to give to the next generation. what stories we want to pass on and we feel especially at city hall, you know, we\u2019re continuing to pass on a story that was given to us and so the next generation has access to the exact same history and the same spaces that we do,\u201d said Matthew Falcone, the city\u2019s cultural resource manager.<\/p>\n<p>The city is still awaiting their golden plaque, which they plan to hang outside to proudly show off this new status<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tFor the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Mon, July 27, 2026 at 10:37 PM UTC Erie City Hall is now officially on the National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-253576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}