{"nrhp_refnum":"01000915","name":"Georgetown Central School","other_names":["Memorial Town Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 Library St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Georgetown","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.72265895000004,"lon":-70.99332560199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wooden Colonial Revival building at 1 Library Street, Georgetown, Massachusetts, built in 1905 as a grammar school by the Boston firm Cooper and Bailey and now used as the Memorial Town Hall.","why_significant":"The building is one of the few Colonial Revival examples in Georgetown and retains considerable integrity of design after its 1999-2000 rehabilitation. It replaced a high school and town hall lost to fire in 1898, and it was part of the town's effort to improve overcrowded, poorly lit and poorly ventilated schools. It also stands in a long-standing civic center at Central and Andover Streets.","narrative":"Built in 1905 as a grammar school and now serving as Georgetown's Memorial Town Hall, this two-story clapboard building at 1 Library Street was designed in the Colonial Revival style by the Boston firm Cooper and Bailey. It sits on a small rise near the town's historic commercial center. Its nearly square form, hipped slate roof, symmetrical windows, pedimented center bays, Tuscan pilasters and columned front porch are typical of early Colonial Revival work. The school replaced a combined high school and town hall that burned in December 1898, at a time when Georgetown's one-room schoolhouses were overcrowded and poorly heated, lit and ventilated. The new building's heating and ventilation system was something of an innovation locally. The site has been a civic and educational center since the late 18th century. A rehabilitation in 1999-2000 restored the exterior from historic photographs and converted the four classrooms on each floor to offices while keeping the original floor plan and many interior details.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Cooper and Bailey (Cooper & Bailey) of Boston","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revival: Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Rehabilitated 1999-2000 and in use as town offices (Memorial Town Hall); some interior work was still being completed at the time of the form.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.173076-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7950/63795023/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/01000915.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000915/a9b71abf5a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000915/a9b71abf5a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GeorgetownMA_TownHall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GeorgetownMA_TownHall.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795023","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_Central_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5546977"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/georgetown-central-school-01000915/"}