'''Macon City Hall''' serves as the seat of government for the city of Macon,_Georgia. It is located in downtown, surrounded by Cotton Avenue, First Street, Poplar Street, and D.T. Walton, Sr., Way. It is diagonally across the street from the Macon_City_Auditorium. The Classical Revival structure was built in 1837 as the headquarters of the Monroe Railroad & Banking Co., before later serving as City Hall. During the American_Civil_War it was called into duty as a military hospital beginning in 1863. Its greatest notoriety came the next year, when Governor Joseph_E._Brown, fleeing the Union army's advance into Milledgeville, moved the state capital to Macon and set up an office at City Hall, beginning November_18 1864. The General Assembly met in the building the following February and March, the last legislative session under the Confederate_States_of_America. The building ceased to serve as capitol on March_11 1865. Currently, City Hall houses city administrative offices, including that of the Mayor and police department. City Council chambers are also located there. An Eternal_flame burns on the Poplar Street side of the building at the foot of the two grand staircases that flank the building's white-columned portico. ==External links== *City Hall & Old Capitol State Historical Marker Category:Macon,_Georgia {{GeorgiaUS-struct-stub}}