Keywords: Hôtel de Ville after the Commune (original).jpg Locals and tourists alike gawked at the remains of the Paris city hall built beginning in 1532 and completed nearly a century later Along with treasured paintings and sculptural decoration historically precious archives of the City of Paris were forever lost when the building was set ablaze in May 1871 A reconstruction of the Hôtel de Ville begun in 1874 and completed a decade later stands on the same site today 1871 Albumen silver print from glass negative Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history exhibition history credit line The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1959 190022030 accession number 59 600 59 PD-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Destructions of the Hôtel-de-Ville during the Paris Commune 1871 in Paris Historical images of Hôtel de Ville de Paris West facade of Hôtel de Ville de Paris 19th-century photographs of Paris Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Photographs of Paris by Hippolyte-Auguste Collard 1871 photographs Horse-drawn vehicles in Paris subpage The Hötel de Ville after the Commune jpg |