{"nrhp_refnum":"11000063","name":"Old Town Hall and School","other_names":["Haymarket Museum","DHR File No. 233-0006"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"15025 Washington St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Haymarket","county":"Prince William County","state":"VA","lat":38.81444229500005,"lon":-77.63713569699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-03-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, front-gable wooden building at 15025 Washington Street in Haymarket, Prince William County, Virginia, built in 1883 as a combined town hall and school. It is believed to have been built by Will Shirley.","why_significant":"The nomination argues local significance under Criterion A in Politics/Government because the building served as the civic focal point of Haymarket for over a century. It also symbolizes the town's rebuilding after being nearly destroyed in the Civil War. Its dual-purpose design, second floor and belfry are described as unusual among late nineteenth-century rural schools.","narrative":"Built in 1883 at the corner of Washington and Fayette Streets in Haymarket, Virginia, this two-story weatherboard building was designed to serve as both a school and a town hall. The town had been incorporated in 1882 and was still recovering from the burning of 1862 during the Civil War. Residents raised money through an oyster supper and subscriptions, and Thomas A. Smith donated the lot. The building is believed to have been built by Will Shirley. Its form is simple and rectangular with a gable roof, topped by a square belfry with a pyramidal roof clad in fish-scale pressed tin. School use ended around 1900, but the building continued as the town hall and a community meeting place, hosting voting, council meetings, court sessions and club activities. An electrical fire in 2001 damaged the interior, and after rehabilitation it reopened in 2002 as the Haymarket Museum. The nomination found no other Virginia school built for a dual purpose like this one.","period_of_significance":"1883 - 1960","architect_builder":"Will Shirley, Builder","architectural_style":"Folk with Greek Revival and Victorian elements","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Currently used as the Haymarket Museum; still owned by the Town of Haymarket. It was rehabilitated after an electrical fire in 2001 and reopened in 2002.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.255402-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/6827/41682763/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/11000063.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000063/dc3da26c09-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000063/dc3da26c09-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OLD_TOWN_HALL_AND_SCHOOL,_PRINCE_WILLIAM_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:OLD_TOWN_HALL_AND_SCHOOL,_PRINCE_WILLIAM_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682763","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Town_Hall_and_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15263879"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/prince-william-county/old-town-hall-and-school-11000063/"}