4-526: Tonawanda Municipal Building is a historic municipal building located at Kenmore in Erie County, New York . It was designed by the noted Buffalo architecture firm Green and James and built in 1936 with funds provide by the Works Progress Administration . It is a two-story, steel frame and brick building clad in limestone with Art Deco design elements. The building serves as home to both
8-400: Is (as defined by Brewer's Politics ) "the building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority ". In most countries, the nation's capital is also seat of its government, thus that city is appropriately referred to as the national seat of government. The terms are not however, completely synonymous, as some countries ' seat of government differs from
12-598: The Village of Kenmore and Town of Tonawanda governments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. [REDACTED] Media related to Kenmore-Tonawanda Municipal Building at Wikimedia Commons This article about a historic property or district in Erie County , New York , that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places , is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Seat of local government The seat of government
16-643: The capital. The Netherlands , for example, has Amsterdam as its capital but The Hague is the seat of government; and the Philippines , with Manila as its capital but the metropolitan area of the same name (Metro Manila; also known as National Capital Region (NCR)), is the seat of government. Local and regional authorities usually have a seat, called an administrative centre , as well. Terms for seats of local government of various levels and in various countries include: Examples of seats of government include: There are several countries where, for various reasons,
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