{"nrhp_refnum":"09000469","name":"West Stockbridge Town Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"9 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Stockbridge","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.334108582000056,"lon":-73.36700369499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-07-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Education","Entertainment/Recreation","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, wood-frame Greek Revival municipal building at 9 Main Street in West Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, built in 1854.","why_significant":"It is one of the town's oldest public buildings and has served continuously for over 150 years as government center, library, commercial space and community hall. It meets Criterion A for its role in politics and government, commerce, entertainment and education, and Criterion C as a vernacular mid-19th-century Greek Revival municipal building that retains a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"West Stockbridge Town Hall is a two-story, side-gabled, wood-frame building on Main Street, completed in 1854 in the Greek Revival style. It sits on a fieldstone foundation, has clapboard walls and a standing-seam metal roof, and carries a louvered cupola added in 1978 to house a bell from the 1878 Village School. Inside, the first floor has long held town offices, a vault, and the public library, which moved in during 1901. The second floor was an auditorium with a stage added in 1885, used for town meetings, dances, movies, lectures, school sports and war relief work. Although the hall was later divided into offices, original woodwork, plaster walls, stair details and window surrounds survive. The building is listed for its long role in the town's government, commerce, entertainment and education, and as a well-preserved example of a vernacular rural Massachusetts municipal building from the mid-19th century.","period_of_significance":"1854-1959","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid 19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as town hall and library; the building is in remarkably good condition despite deferred maintenance and remodeling, and the second-floor auditorium has been divided into offices.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.128521-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7942/63794204/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/09000469.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000469/79ed1d58f6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000469/79ed1d58f6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Town_Hall,_West_Stockbridge_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Town_Hall,_West_Stockbridge_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794204","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Stockbridge_Town_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903145"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/west-stockbridge-town-hall-09000469/"}