{"nrhp_refnum":"12000070","name":"Revere City Hall and Police Station","other_names":["Revere Town Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"281 Broadway & 23 Pleasant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Revere","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.40966711200008,"lon":-71.01212655999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-03-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Art","Community Planning and Development","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A municipal complex at the corner of Broadway and Pleasant Street in Revere, Massachusetts, consisting of the Revere City Hall (1897-1898) at 281 Broadway and the Revere Police Station (1909) at 23 Pleasant Street.","why_significant":"The City Hall is a sophisticated Classical/Colonial Revival design by Boston architects Cobb and Greenleaf, built to commemorate Paul Revere after the previous town hall burned in 1897. The Hurd and Gore police station complements it as a Colonial Revival municipal building. Together they reflect Revere's shift from an agricultural town to a known seaside municipality and were built for horse-drawn vehicles on the eve of the automobile age.","narrative":"At the corner of Broadway and Pleasant Street in Revere, Massachusetts, two red-brick municipal buildings share a landscaped lot. The larger is City Hall, built in 1897-1898 after fire destroyed the 1834 town hall. Boston architects Cobb and Greenleaf designed it in a blend of Classical and Colonial Revival styles, with a copper belfry loosely based on the Choragic Monument in Greece. Its seal, lettering and interior art refer to Paul Revere's ride, and the building was meant as a memorial to him. It was renamed City Hall when Revere became a city in 1915. The second building, the 1909 police station by Hurd and Gore, is a more modest Colonial Revival design whose masonry complements City Hall. The station is now unoccupied, while City Hall remains in government use after a 1998 exterior rehabilitation. Both were built to accommodate horse-drawn vehicles shortly before the automobile age, and they mark Revere's growth from a farming community into a municipality known for its public beach.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Cobb and Greenleaf (Albert W. Cobb and Luther C. Greenleaf), City Hall; Hurd and Gore, Police Station","architectural_style":"Late 19th/Early 20th Century Revival: Classical/Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"City Hall still serves as the seat of local government; the police station is described as presently unoccupied. City Hall had a major exterior rehabilitation in 1998.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:10:51.74948-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/7967/63796714/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/12000070.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000070/cc10d1c2a0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000070/cc10d1c2a0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RevereMA_CityHall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RevereMA_CityHall.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796714","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revere_City_Hall_and_Police_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16899256"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/revere-city-hall-and-police-station-12000070/"}