Moriah Town Office Building | |
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Location | Cedar St., Town of Moriah, Port Henry, New York |
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Coordinates | 44°2′56″N73°27′44″W / 44.04889°N 73.46222°W Coordinates: 44°2′56″N73°27′44″W / 44.04889°N 73.46222°W |
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]
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 is a hamlet in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,194 at the 2010 census.
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]
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