North Salem Town Hall
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North Salem Town Hall is a historic town hall
located at Salem Center, Westchester County, New York
. It was built about 1770 by the DeLancey family as a private home. It has been used for governmental and educational functions since 1773. It is a three story frame building, covered in clapboard, five bays wide and three bays deep on a fieldstone
foundation in a vernacular Georgian
style. It has a gambrel roof topped by a six-sided cupola
. From 1790 to 1884 it housed the North Salem Academy and, after 1886, the town offices of North Salem, New York
.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1980.
Seat of local government
In local government, a city hall, town hall or a municipal building or civic centre, is the chief administrative building of a city...
located at Salem Center, Westchester County, New York
Westchester County, New York
Westchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of and has a population of 949,113 according to the 2010 Census, residing in 45 municipalities...
. It was built about 1770 by the DeLancey family as a private home. It has been used for governmental and educational functions since 1773. It is a three story frame building, covered in clapboard, five bays wide and three bays deep on a fieldstone
Fieldstone
Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally...
foundation in a vernacular Georgian
Georgian architecture
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United...
style. It has a gambrel roof topped by a six-sided cupola
Cupola
In architecture, a cupola is a small, most-often dome-like, structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome....
. From 1790 to 1884 it housed the North Salem Academy and, after 1886, the town offices of North Salem, New York
North Salem, New York
North Salem is a town in the northeast part of Westchester County, New York, United States. The county ranks second for wealthiest counties in New York State and the seventh wealthiest county nationally...
.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1980.