Most old Galician and Podillian towns had a town hall in their Market Square. It was the symbol of municipal rights, the administrative heart of the settlement - in short, you couldn’t really imagine a town without one. Today, Stryi has no town hall. But it should. And once did - the first mention of it dates back to documents from October 21, 1431. In fact, Stryi had not just one but several town halls over time. Not simultaneously, of course - successively. They were wooden and often burned down. Such was the fate of the town hall built at the expense of revenues from the production (the right to produce and sell alcoholic beverages) by the starost Kazimierz Poniatowski in 1777, which perished in flames. The town wanted a town hall; it needed one. Meanwhile, Austrian officials carried out their work in a brick building erected in the Classicist style in 1823. That building collapsed in 1857. The newspaper Słowo Polskie (No. 132, March 28, 1906) reported a competition for the design of a new town hall. The competition jury included Mayor Aleksander Stoyalowski, his deputy Stanisław Matkowski, lawyer and Sejm deputy Filip Fruchtman, professors of the Lviv Polytechnic Gustav Bizanz, Lewiński, and Teodor Talowski, railway inspector Komora, city builder Adam Opolski, and senior engineer Zygmunt Machniewicz. First place was awarded to the project Senat Populoque, authored by Polytechnic students T. Bauer, Wiesław Grzymański, and Marian Osiński, for which they received a prize of 1,200 crowns.
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