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Town Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Old Town Hall of Lakeville, Massachusetts, is located at 2 Precinct Street. Built in 1856, it is an excellent example of a 19th-century Greek Revival town hall.”
Wikipedia article Town Hall (Lakeville, Massachusetts), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 93 National Register listings in Plymouth County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Plymouth County.
National Register reference number.76000955- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
94 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Town Hall between
2015 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
24
Misuse of fire by a minor
10
Recreation and ceremony
5
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 650 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Town Hall between 1855 and
1974: 334 Plantae, 237 Animalia, 71 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. K. Harrison, A. Main and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of Town Hall: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lakeville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
2,241 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
The Lakeville Town Hall, built in 1856, is located on the northwest corner of Bedford and Precincts Streets. It is a Greek Revival temple form building of wood frame construction, 30 feet wide and 40 feet long. Its traditional white elap- board walls are framed by pilaster design cornerboards that form the base for the returns of the gable. A simple entablature extends from the cornerboards along the sides of the building. Its facade is symmetrical, with two windows located directly over the two doors. The six-over-six windows and the two doors are crowned with cornice caps. The original notice board hangs between the doors. The interior of the town hall consists of one large meeting room and an enclosed room directly above the front doorways.
The enclosed room housed the original town offices. Minor alterations, including installation of a false ceiling, have been made in the meeting room.
Statement of significance
/ARCHITECT Since its erection in 1856, Lakeville Town Hall has played a significant role in the political and social history of Lakeville. Annual town meetings were held in the building from 1856 to 1952. It also housed the selectmen's offices and the town's first public library. tions. The citizens of Lakeville have recognized the significant role that the town hall has played, and continues to play, in the civic activities of the town. They are currently planning to restore the building and will continue to use it as a public center for town functions.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76000955, 13 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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