{"nrhp_refnum":"80000649","name":"Quincy Town Hall","other_names":["Quincy City Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1305 Hancock St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.250955547000046,"lon":-71.00372370399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-01-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Greek Revival town hall of native blue-grey granite at 1305 Hancock Street in Quincy Square, Quincy, Massachusetts, built in 1844 to designs by Solomon Willard and later used as City Hall.","why_significant":"The building is significant for its continuous role as the seat of Quincy's town and then city government since 1844. It is also an outstanding example of monumental Greek Revival architecture built of native granite, designed by Solomon Willard, who was instrumental in developing Quincy's granite industry.","narrative":"Quincy City Hall, originally built as the Town Hall in 1844, faces Hancock Street in Quincy Square beside the old Hancock Cemetery. It is a two-story, gable-fronted Greek Revival building of native blue-grey granite ashlar, with four fluted Ionic pilasters, a triangular pediment and a severe entablature. Solomon Willard supervised its construction, and the design was likened in 1844 to the Merchants Exchange in Boston. The front was heavily altered in 1888, when the building became City Hall and the recessed entrance and shop doors were changed. Rather than replacing the hall with a more fashionable building, Quincy kept it. The hall is valued as an example of academic Greek Revival design, unusual for its monumentality and the severity of its granite detail. Willard helped build Quincy's granite industry, notably through his work on the Bunker Hill Monument. The building has served town and city government continuously.","period_of_significance":"1844","architect_builder":"Solomon Willard","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied, in excellent condition, and altered; owned by the City of Quincy and used as government offices.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.708251-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7963/63796374/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000649.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000649/1273eeb401-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000649/1273eeb401-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Sswonk (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quincy_MA_Town_Hall_1844.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Sswonk (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quincy_MA_Town_Hall_1844.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796374","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_City_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7272125"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/quincy-town-hall-80000649/"}