Moriah Town Office Building

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Moriah Town Office Building
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Location Cedar St., Town of Moriah, Port Henry, New York
Coordinates 44°2′56″N73°27′44″W / 44.04889°N 73.46222°W / 44.04889; -73.46222 Coordinates: 44°2′56″N73°27′44″W / 44.04889°N 73.46222°W / 44.04889; -73.46222
Area 3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built 1875
Architectural style Second Empire
MPS Moriah MPS
NRHP reference # 95000594 [1]
Added to NRHP May 18, 1995

Moriah Town Office Building is a historic town hall building, located at Port Henry in Essex County, New York, built in 1875. It is a massive, 3-story rectangular, five-by-three-bay, brick building capped by a concave mansard roof in the Second Empire style. It features three tall brick chimneys with molded caps, symmetrically placed gable dormers, and a square roof-top cupola. Also on the property are a carriage house and modest clapboard-sided building, used as a court house. It was built as the main office of Witherbee, Sherman, and Company (later Republic Steel) and obtained for use as town offices in May 1959. [2]

Seat of local government chief administrative building of a municipality

In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre, a guildhall, a Rathaus (German), or a municipal building, is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses the city or town council, its associated departments, and their employees. It also usually functions as the base of the mayor of a city, town, borough, or county/shire.

Port Henry, New York Hamlet and CDP in New York, United States

Port Henry is a hamlet in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,194 at the 2010 census.

Essex County, New York County in the United States

Essex County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 39,370. Its county seat is the hamlet of Elizabethtown. Its name is from the English county of Essex. Along with Hamilton County, Essex is entirely within the Adirondack Park.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

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