Old Town Hall Historic District

Huntington's civic heart sits on a hill known as "town hill," just east of the central business district. This five-acre district gathers ten contributing resources: eight buildings and two sites, spanning the 1653 settlement to the early twentieth century. At its center is the Old Burying Ground, which holds eighteenth and nineteenth-century sandstone and slate gravestones and the site of Fort Golgotha, a British fort built in 1782. Nearby are the 1837 Greek Revival Universalist Church, now a Daughters of the American Revolution chapter house, and three Queen Anne houses from about 1885 to 1895. Two Tudor Revival buildings by the New York firm Cady, Berg and See, the 1892 Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building and the c.1900 Sewing and Trade School, stand close to the 1910 Neoclassical Town Hall designed by Julian Peabody. Together they form the largest collection of architect-designed buildings in the surrounding resource area and document the town's growth and prosperity.