{"nrhp_refnum":"76000296","name":"Brockton City Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"45 School St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brockton","county":"Plymouth County","state":"MA","lat":42.082470218000026,"lon":-71.01823408299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-03-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Brockton City Hall is a two-and-a-half-story yellow brick municipal building at 45 School Street in downtown Brockton, Massachusetts, built in 1892-94 to plans by Wesley Lyng Minor.","why_significant":"It was the first permanent home of Brockton's city government, which had moved among rented sites from the city's 1821 incorporation until then. It is also an architectural landmark of unusual scale and detail for its period in the city. Its grand corridor holds fifteen Civil War paintings from 1893.","narrative":"Brockton City Hall occupies a triangular block in downtown Brockton, bounded by School Street, East Elm Street and City Hall Square. Built between 1892 and 1894 from plans by local architect Wesley Lyng Minor, it is a yellow brick building with a high granite basement, terra cotta and brownstone trim, Romanesque round-arched doorways, Richardsonian dormers, a five-story clock tower and a round tower on the east side. Inside, a grand corridor 108 feet long holds fifteen Civil War paintings by Richard Holland and Mortimer Lamb, done in 1893. The building was the first permanent home of the city government, which had moved from one rented site to another since incorporation in 1821. Its opening was marked by a large parade and an address by the governor. The hall reflects the pride and shoe-industry wealth of the city, and no other building from the period in Brockton matches its scale and detail.","period_of_significance":"1892-94","architect_builder":"Wesley Lyng Minor","architectural_style":"Eclectic with Richardsonian Romanesque elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Brockton and in use as city hall; the city government was interested in restoring it as a downtown revitalization priority.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.305275-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/7965/63796510/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/76000296.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000296/48c7463875-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000296/48c7463875-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Timothy Valentine","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrocktonCityHall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Timothy Valentine</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrocktonCityHall.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100012152","name":"School Street-Main Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/school-street-main-street-historic-district-100012152/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796510","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockton_City_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4972869"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/plymouth-county/brockton-city-hall-76000296/"}