Ware Town Hall - Ware, MA
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Ware Town Hall is a Richardsonian Romanesque Revival building located on 126 Main Street (Route 9) in downtown Ware, MA.
Waymark Code: WM1339Y
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2020
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The Ware Town Hall is a Romanesque Revival building in the style made famous by H.H. Richardson. It was constructed about 1885 to a design of H. P. Cummings and Company, Henry Walker Hartwell, Thomas E. Madigan, and William Cummings Richardson. On the Main Street level was a large hall that seated 767 people, had a stage and dressing rooms. Town offices and a courtroom were housed in the basement level.
The building features a high hipped roof, a broad arched entrance, and a tall clock tower that containing Westminster chimes. The building is trimmed with rough-faced sandstone and terracotta blocks. When the rear of the building was destroyed by fire in 1935, the town repair the damage and constructed a matching annex.
A plaque on the building is inscribed:
WARE TOWN HALL
ca. 1885-86
A Richardsonian Romanesque Revival structure
of red brick, richly ornamented with reddish
sandstone and decorative brick. On the five
story square tower of this building a clock and
Westminster Chimes were installed in 1901. In
1935, due to a fire, an addition was added to the
main building, complimenting the beauty of the
original structure.
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In 1986 Ware Town Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places Narrative: link
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