{"nrhp_refnum":"80003496","name":"Borough Hall of the Borough of Waynesboro","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"57 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waynesboro","county":"Franklin County","state":"PA","lat":39.75517567000003,"lon":-77.57630166199993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-12-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Borough Hall, formerly the Academy of Music, is a three-story brick public building in Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It was constructed in 1881 and serves as the Borough Offices.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a classic example of the Second Empire style and the only remaining example of that style on Main Street in Waynesboro. It also held a significant dual role in the town's cultural and civic life, serving first as a fire station and community theatre and later as a library, public market and municipal offices.","narrative":"Built in 1881 of brick by the Waynesboro Town Council, this three-story building on Main Street was designed as a fire station and community hall, and it was also intended to serve as a theatre. Its symmetrical square block, mansard roof with patterned slate, central pavilion topped by a bracketed clock, and arched windows with eyebrow-like heads mark it as a Second Empire design. The building was the town's first modern theatre and hosted lectures, band concerts, recitals, graduations and vaudeville acts into the early twentieth century. The first motion picture shown in Waynesboro was screened here in 1906. In 1922 the second floor housed the Waynesboro Library, and in 1929 the eastern half of the first floor became a public market. It was saved from demolition in 1975 and was incorporated into expanded Borough Offices. It is listed for its architecture and for its long civic and cultural role in the community.","period_of_significance":"1881","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Saved from demolition in 1975 and now serves, with a major addition, as the Borough Offices; interior has been extensively altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.399422-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003496.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003496/af6a7b415d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003496/af6a7b415d-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waynesboro_PA_Town_Hall.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waynesboro_PA_Town_Hall.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100005205","name":"Waynesboro Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/waynesboro-historic-district-100005205/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998588","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough_Hall_of_the_Borough_of_Waynesboro","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4946313"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/franklin-county/borough-hall-of-the-borough-of-waynesboro-80003496/"}