- Moriah Town Office Building
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Moriah Town Office Building
Location: Cedar St., Town of Moriah, Port Henry, New York Coordinates: 44°2′56″N 73°27′44″W / 44.04889°N 73.46222°WCoordinates: 44°2′56″N 73°27′44″W / 44.04889°N 73.46222°W Area: 3 acres (1.2 ha) Built: 1875 Architectural style: Second Empire Governing body: Local 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]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Linda M. Garofalini (February 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Moriah Town Office Building". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3644. Retrieved 2010-06-26. See also: "Accompanying 12 photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3646.
Categories:- Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York
- Second Empire architecture in New York
- Buildings and structures completed in 1875
- Buildings and structures in Essex County, New York
- Essex County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
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