The Prescott Town House is a historic former town hall on MA 32 in Petersham, Massachusetts.
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| Location | Petersham, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°29′56″N 72°11′1″W / 42.49889°N 72.18361°W |
| Built | 1838 |
| Architect | Sibley, Solomon; Titus, Lucian |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 89000043[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 21, 1989 |
The building was built in 1838 in a Greek Revival style and served as the town hall for Prescott, Massachusetts, a town that was unincorporated in order to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s. The town house was moved to Petersham, where it is now located on a hill above a hay meadow north of the town center. This move was funded by Judge John Monroe Woolsey, who used the building as a law library and office.[2]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Prescott Town House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-22.