The Bârlad City Hall (Primăria Municipiului Bârlad) is the municipal headquarters of Bârlad, housed in the Communal Palace (Palatul Comunal), a purpose-built interwar civic building in the city center. Its construction marked the relocation of the municipal administration from the flood-prone Podeni district to a new and more prominent setting at the heart of the city.
Repeated floods between 1931 and 1934 had left the former town hall increasingly unsuitable, prompting the municipality to abandon the old site and commission a new headquarters. A central location was chosen in an area previously occupied by part of the Domneasca park and market, where existing structures were cleared before the foundation stone was laid on 21 October 1934. Designed by architect Constantin C. Moșinschi, the Communal Palace was completed over the following years and formally received in 1937.
Moșinschi gave the building a restrained interwar appearance, with a symmetrical façade, strong horizontal and vertical lines and a prominent central entrance. Reinforced-concrete framing and floors were combined with brick walls, while the representative interior spaces received more elaborate finishes, including marble-based surfaces in the main hall. The result was a modern administrative building that was considerably more substantial than the municipal headquarters it replaced.
The palace remained in administrative use after the Second World War, although its occupants changed during the communist period, when parts of the building housed Communist Party offices and later public-finance services alongside local administration. It subsequently returned fully to municipal use and today serves as the headquarters of Bârlad City Hall.
