Preserved Old City Hall is a historic city landmark with a lot of old stories to tell. Eber Culver, one of Williamsport’s foremost architects, designed the five-story building of yellow brick trimmed in stone with molded brick ornamentation and terra cotta columns. Built in 1893, it features two towers: a large rectangular tower and a smaller octagonal tower, both of which have been incorporated into the hotel’s unique design. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Pla The space Williamsport was incorporated as a city on January 15, 1866. On June 4, of the same year, Major James M. Wood was sworn in as the city’s first chief executive. Major James H. Perkins, the fourth mayor, built the lumber boom and started the city on its way to become the “Lumber City.” Archibald M. Hoagland, mayor from 1917 to 1924, welcomed the soldiers home from WWI with parades and prayers. These are just a few of the people we honor in the “The Mayor’s Suite”