N168 W20733 MAIN ST

N168 W20733 MAIN ST

Washington

Jackson

1931

2001

1977,2020

city/town/village hall/auditorium

Romanesque Revival

Brick

No

CRENELLATED CORNICE W/STONE COPING ON SQUARE CUPOLA. ROUND ARCHED RECESSED ENTRANCE W/BRICK AND STONE SURROUND. FANLIGHT TRANSOM OVER DOOR. WINDOWS W/TRANSOMS. BRICK PILASTERS W/STONE FINIALS. This 1-story Romanesque Revival village hall was constructed in 1931. It is irregular in plan with brown brick walls and a flat roof. The front elevation faces north and is symmetrical in plan with three distinct bays. The central bay contains a new metal-framed glass door with matching sidelights and a round-arched transom; the transom is obscured by a semi-circular awning. Stepped pilasters flank both sides of the center bay; these are capped by conical stone finials and stone coping along a raised parapet. Above the doorway, the words “Village Hall” are engraved into a stone or concrete inset above a corbelled cornice. A crenellated, square tower rises above the center bay. The east bay contain a bank of three new metal-framed windows, the upper portion of which is obscured by a modern awning. The west bay contains three new metal-framed windows slightly different proportions than the eastern bay windows; the upper portion of these windows is obscured by a new awning. The wall around the western windows is comprised of brick that lacks the patina of the remainder of the building’s brick walls as the west bay originally contained a vehicular bay which was infilled in recent years. A 2001 addition mimics the bay sequence and cornice of the 1931 Romanesque Revival village hall; the addition is connected to the east elevation of the original building with a brick hyphen that is set back from the facades of both building masses. The building was constructed in 1931 to serve as the Jackson Village Hall and Fire Department (at the time, the Jackson Fire Department gave the Village $500 to build the new hall an extra ten feet to the west to allow for a vehicular entrance to house its fire engine). Since that time, the Village Hall has remained in constant use, although the Fire Department relocated to a new site in 1972. Sometime after 1977, the front vehicular entrance constructed in 1931 for use by the Fire Department was infilled to mimic the wall on the eastern half of the façade. In 2001, an addition was constructed to the east of the building; this is connected to the original building via a narrow hyphen at the southeast corner.

Washington County History and Driving Tours presented by the Washington County Landmarks Commission, 1999.

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