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Chapel Hill Town Hall is a historic
town hall In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or municipal hall (in the Philippines) is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses the city o ...
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 The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. 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 In architecture, a cupola () is a relatively small, usually dome-like structure on top of a building often crowning a larger roof or dome. Cupolas often serve as a roof lantern to admit light and air or as a lookout. The word derives, via Ital ...
. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1990.


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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 {{OrangeCountyNC-NRHP-stub