Bourne Town Hall
| Bourne Town Hall | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 The building in 2004 |
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| location | Bourne , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 44 '52.8 " N , 70 ° 36' 6.1" W | ||
| surface | 4 Acres (1.6 ha ) | ||
| Built | 1914 (main building) 1937 (side wing) |
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| architect | James Purdon, Walter H. Wing, Lloyd M. Hendrick | ||
| Architectural style | classicism | ||
| NRHP number | [1] 12001169 | ||
| The NRHP added | January 14, 2013 | ||
The Eastbourne Town Hall is the town hall of the city of Bournemouth in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . It was built in 1914 and expanded in 1937 by adding side wings. In 2013, it was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places .
description
City Hall is located at 24 Perry Avenue in CDP Buzzards Bay , Bourne's historic business district. The district is located north of the Cape Cod Canal , which runs right through the city and separates Cape Cod from the mainland. In the area around the town hall, there are predominantly one and a half and two-story houses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The town hall itself stands about 100 ft (30.5 m ) back from the road on a 4 acres (1.6 ha ) property and faces the southwest with its front. On the property there are also the Soldiers 'and Sailors' Monument and World War I Monument, as well as a garage and a flagpole, which were also rated as contributing objects .
architecture
Outdoor areas
The building is a well-preserved example of a civil building in the classicism style . It consists of a two-story, rectangular main part with a hipped roof and two one-story wings with a flat roof that were added later . At the rear there is a two-story annex that extends at right angles from the main part to the rear. The main building was built together with the extension in 1914 and expanded in 1937 by adding the side wings. In the 1970s, the roof of the rear extension was raised to make room for a second floor.
All roof areas of the town hall are covered with asphalt shingles. A dome originally stood on the roof of the main part, but it was lost at an unknown point in time after 1940. Below the roof line of the middle part of the building, a toothed, wooden cornice runs along an undecorated frieze . The outer walls of the main part and the side extensions are clad with red bricks in the stretcher bond, while the walls of the rear extension are covered with a vinyl surface . The entire town hall rests on a poured concrete foundation.
The five yokes wide front is symmetrical and has a centrally placed entrance. The three central bays are set back and have flat pilasters made of brick , which support semicircular arches made of wood, which also frame semicircular windows on the first floor. While the entrance is in the middle yoke, window openings are placed to the left and right of it. Above the entrance and the two side windows there are wooden panels with the inscriptions “TOWN OF BOURNE” (center), “ERECTED AD 1914” (left) and “INCORPORATED AD 1884” (right). Side entrances are located in the northern wing of the building and in the rear annex.
Indoor areas
The interior of the town hall was extensively renovated in 1999, with the original entrance hall on the ground floor being retained. Until then, there was a two-story lecture hall in the rear extension, which was replaced by new offices and conference rooms. The location and size of the offices in the north and south wings of the building, however, still correspond to the plans from 1937.
Other relevant objects
Soldiers 'and Sailors' Monument
The Soldiers 'and Sailors' Monument, which consists of a single granite column with an eagle, stands directly in front of the main entrance to the town hall. Erected in 1914, it is more than 30 ft (9.1 m) high and is capped by a flat capital on which a bronze eagle rests with outspread wings. The monument stands on a square granite slab on which a total of four low granite columns stand, which are connected to one another with iron chains. Small bronze plaques are embedded in the granite slab, showing the names of 69 men who fought in the Civil War. The square slab, in turn, rests on a larger floor slab, also made of granite, to which three steps lead up. At the level of the second and third steps there are four more low pillars at the corners. On the west side of the monument there is the following inscription:
“ERECTED BY THE TOWN OF BOURNE AD MCMXIV IN MEMORY OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS WHO SERVED IN THE WAR OF 1861-1865”
"Erected by the city of Bourne in 1914 to commemorate the soldiers and sailors who served in the war of 1861-1865."
garage
To the northeast of the town hall is a one-and-a-half-story wooden garage with a hipped roof, which was probably built together with the side wings in 1937. The construction date of the northern extension to the garage, however, is unknown. Their roof is covered with asphalt shingles, while their side walls are clad with wooden shingles.
World War I Monument
In Veterans Park , established in 1969 and located in the northwest corner of the Rathaus property, there is a 1918 memorial to the First World War . It consists of a large boulder framed by two low bushes. On the west side of the rock there is a bronze plate with the following inscription:
“DEDICATED TO THE CITIZENS OF THE TOWN OF BOURNE WHO DEVOTED THEMSELVES TO THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM AND SERVED THEIR COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WAR”
"Dedicated to the people of Bourne who gave themselves to the cause of freedom and who served their country during the Second World War."
Below is a list of names.
Historical meaning
In 1780 and 1797, attempts by the residents of this area to break away from Sandwich failed before finally succeeding on April 2, 1884 with a renewed application that led to the establishment of Bourne. The town was named after the prominent New Bedford whaling captain Jonathan Bourne, Sr., who was a descendant of the first English settler Richard Bourne and who, as state legislature, had supported the secession of Sandwich.
The self-government of Bourne began its work shortly after its establishment and held the first community meeting on April 12, 1884 at Franklin Hall in Buzzards Bay. From the eight villages in the city, Bourne Village was chosen as the future city council location, where many local business people and city employees resided. Initially, a rented apartment building was used as the headquarters of the administration before the move to the Jonathan Bourne Public Library took place in 1897 .
Due to the population growth in Bourne, the space in the library soon became insufficient. 1913 a community meeting was under a loan of 25,000 dollars (now about 665,000 US dollars) approved the establishment of an independent town hall, which from Boston was designed architect James Purdon and completed the following year. Originally it only consisted of the main part, which is now in the middle, with the rear, right-angled building wing. A dome with arched windows was placed on the roof, but it was so badly damaged in the 1938 hurricane that it had to be dismantled in the following years despite repeated attempts at repair. Purdon also designed the Soldiers 'and Sailors' Monument in front of the building as a memorial to the Civil War .
As early as 1911, the local branch of the Women's Relief Corps , a subsidiary of the Grand Army of the Republic veterans' association , began collecting donations for a war memorial. With these donations, as well as some remaining financing from the city, Stephen Bianchi was commissioned with the creation for around 5,000 dollars (today approx. 133,000 dollars), which took place in Quincy . In 1918 the monument was erected at its current location. The city also financed the erection of a flagpole; Today there is a replica from the 1950s that replaced the original that was damaged in a hurricane. During the construction phase of the City Hall, the construction of the Cape Cod Canal , which was also completed in 1914 and split Bourne in two, also changed its immediate surroundings.
The City Hall is also significant from an architectural point of view as it is a well-preserved example of the classicism style known as the Classical Revival in the United States during this period (late 19th and early 20th centuries) , and particularly in the It had become very popular during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago . The architectural style, which encompassed classical design principles and often the direct reuse of classical forms, had a significant social secondary function due to the strong national feeling at the time, as an attempt was made to find a national identity by going back to the past Civil War was lost. Therefore, the ancient Roman and Greek architectural styles were very popular, especially for public buildings, as they were associated with democracy and self-government.
This is also the case with the town halls of other cities in Cape Cod - e.g. Orleans ( Italianate style, 1873), Provincetown ( neo-Renaissance style, 1877), Falmouth ( stick style , 1881) and Brewster ( Queen Anne style , 1881) - clear. At the beginning of the 20th century the architectural styles Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival dominated . After the library (1897) and the high school (1905), the town hall of Bourne was the third public building of this style and thus contributed significantly to the identity of the new city. The symmetry of the building with the prototypical hipped roof and classic elements on the facade make it stand out. The side wings added in 1937 take up this concept and make the building appear as a unit.
See also
literature
- Jones, Carey L .; Kline, Laura J .; Friedberg, Betsy: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. ( PDF ) National Park Service , November 2012, accessed on December 15, 2015 (English, accessible via the "NR" button).
Individual evidence
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved July 9, 2010.
- ↑ cf. Jones et al., P. 5.
- ↑ cf. Jones et al., Pp. 5 f.
- ↑ a b cf. Jones et al., P. 6.
- ↑ a b c d cf. Jones et al., P. 7.
- ↑ a b cf. Jones et al., P. 8.
- ↑ a b cf. Jones et al., P. 12.
- ↑ a b cf. Jones et al., P. 14.
- ↑ a b cf. Jones et al., P. 17.