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.[2]
North Salem Town Hall | |
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| Location | Titicus Rd., Salem Center, New York |
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| Coordinates | 41°19′44″N 73°35′51″W / 41.32889°N 73.59750°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c. 1770 |
| Architectural style | Georgian, Georgian vernacular |
| NRHP reference No. | 80002794 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 4, 1980 |
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2016-07-01. Note: This includes Karen Morey Kennedy and Austin N. O'Brien (May 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: North Salem Town Hall" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-07-01. and Accompanying seven photographs
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