Lake City City Hall

Lake City City Hall in Lake City, Georgia received a 2,100 SF expansion on the lot adjacent to the existing municipal building. The city government had outgrown the original structure and needed more office area for the staff who actually run day-to-day municipal operations.

Studio RNB served as Architect of Record. The work began with an existing city hall, an adjacent empty lot, and a client request that the new construction read as the same building rather than as a separate annex. The brick base, the standing-seam metal roof, and the white-column entry of the existing structure carried through into the addition so the building reads as one civic facility from the parking lot.

We documented the project through a permit-ready and construction-ready set, working alongside the municipal team to clear inspections and meet the health, safety, and welfare standards that public work requires. Civic clients live with their buildings for decades, and they read the difference between a documentation set that anticipates field conditions and one that does not. The set was written to clear review on the first cycle and to give the contractor a clean record to build from.

The expansion is built and in active municipal use. From the curb it reads as the original city hall: bigger, but unmistakably the same building.