Chapel Hill Town Hall is a historic
town hall
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located at
Chapel Hill,
Orange County, North Carolina
Orange County is a County (United States), county located in the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 148,696. Its county seat is Hil ...
. It built in 1938, and is a two-story, red brick,
Colonial Revival
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The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the arch ...
style building. It has a full basement and a hipped slate roof topped by an octagonal wooden
cupola
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The word derives, via Ital ...
.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1990.
References
City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina
Government buildings completed in 1938
Buildings and structures in Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, North Carolina
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