Florence Town Hall

The story

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The Florence Town Hall is a two-story building at 748 Central Ave. in Florence, built in 1937 in the Art Moderne style. The nomination names Max L. Hanisch, Sr. as architect.

Why it's listed

It was listed in the National Register in 2014 under criterion C, with local significance in architecture; the nomination gives its period of significance as 1937, the year it was built.

Physical character

The T-plan building has rose-colored red brick walls in American Bond on a poured concrete foundation, with a raised basement story. The meeting room has a fireplace on the west wall and a hardwood floor of narrow varnished boards, and the auditorium wing has a raised stage with a rectangular proscenium. In 2003 the main block and auditorium wing roofs were replaced and the basement became offices and rentable spaces, and in 2012 original windows and entrance doors were replaced with modern ones.

Historical context

The Works Progress Administration gave the Town of Florence permission to build a new town hall in February 1936, and it went up in 1937 with WPA-funded labor and materials. The auditorium wing served as a factory for the war effort in the 1940s.