Lincoln City Hall

The historic city hall has a unique feature, a phone booth on the roof. Installed about 1952, the phone booth was an early tool used by the Lincoln Fire Department, to provide a lookout position for severe weather spotters. Firefighters, usually a young new firefighter, would report to the phone booth with a radio or at the time, a direct hard wire phone line connected to the apparatus bay. If severe weather such as wall clouds, funnel clouds, or tornadoes were spotted, the fire fighter would call downstairs and have the storm siren activated.