Municipal Buildings
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City Hall
The current Longwood City Hall and municipal complex opened in 1964 and have been serving continuously since. Prior to that, city hall was two blocks south on Wilma Street at what is now the Old Longwood School. The building has served the town well for over fifty years, though it has drawn criticism for not matching the historic motif of the surrounding district and that ordinances require. Its architecture is a typical mid-century block structure. Historic Photos
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Longwood Fire Station No. 1
The station was built in 1980 on land donated by Jimmy Reiter. When the city built the fire department, they forgot to measure for the full length of the trucks. A hole had to be cut in the front doors of the station for the ladders. This is part of what helped coin the negative nickname for Longwood as “Wrongwood” starting in the 1980s.