The first Townhouse built on this site was destroyed during the Ten Years War. It was attached to the Jesuit convent. The two buildings were destroyed to allow the construction of the new Town Hall from 1832 to 1838. It was developed on two levels: a market on the ground floor and offices upstairs.
Renovated several times, it has kept its large columned vestibule on the ground floor inside and most of its exterior structure. Its sober and powerful architecture expresses the solemnity that the austere Haut-Doubs of the 19th century wished to give to its official buildings.
