Town Hall - Brimfield Center Historic District - Brimfield MA
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N 42° 07.313 W 072° 12.234
18T E 731133 N 4667093
The Center has one Stick Style building, Town Hall, 21 Main Street, 1878 (MHC #8). This is a high style version designed by well-known Springfield architect Eugene Clarence Gardner.
Waymark Code: WM12Y8K
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 08/05/2020
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The Center has one Stick Style building, Town Hall, 21 Main Street, 1878 (MHC #8). This is a high style version designed by well-known Springfield architect Eugene Clarence Gardner. The two-story building has a steep pyramidal hipped roof on which large, front-gabled dormers are located on each of its sides. There is a corner tower of two stories beneath a high, hipped roof at the building’s northeast corner. The projecting corner tower contains the main entry to the building. It has a front gabled portico with High Victorian Gothic Revival style bargeboards at its raking eaves. The portico is supported by turned posts and shelters the main entry that is composed of double leaf, cross buck ornamented doors. The clapboard and vertically-sided frame building gets its stylistic designation from the ornament applied to its exterior. Painted in a contrasting color, the ornament consists of string courses at first and second floor levels, a water table, and pieces that mimic angled and cross-bracing, or spandrels beneath window openings, “sticks” that suggest half timbering and king post trusses. There is also other ornamental embellishment without particular structural reference to framing techniques that was used to contribute to a visual liveliness. The building is set on high brick foundations that allow full use of the above-ground basement at its rear.
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