Milford Town Hall

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Milford Town Hall
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Location Milford, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°8′33″N71°31′2″W / 42.14250°N 71.51722°W / 42.14250; -71.51722
Built1853
Architect Thomas W. Silloway
Architectural styleRenaissance
NRHP reference No. 77000200 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 22, 1977

Milford Town Hall is the historic town hall at 52 Main Street in Milford, Massachusetts. The two story wood frame building was completed in 1854; in addition to its role in housing town offices for over a century, it is a distinctive local example of Italianate architecture, with pilasters articulating the building bays above a quoined basement level, a modillioned cornice, and alternating gabled and segmented-arch pediments above its windows. It is unusual among Milford's public buildings in not being built out of locally quarried granite. [2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "MACRIS inventory record for Milford Town Hall". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-30.