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Borough Hall of the Borough of Waynesboro

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Built
  
1881

NRHP Reference #
  
80003496

Area
  
2,400 m²

Architectural style
  
Second Empire

Opened
  
1881

Added to NRHP
  
2 December 1980

Borough Hall of the Borough of Waynesboro

Location
  
57 E. Main St., Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

Borough Hall of the Borough of Waynesboro is a historic borough hall in Waynesboro in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1881 by the town council as a public theater and fire station and named the Academy of Music. The first lecture at the theater, "The Rise and Fall of the Moustache", was given by Robert Burdette, one of over 3,000 times he gave the lecture throughout the country. The theater hosted the first motion picture shown in Waynesboro in 1906.

The three-story, square brick building in the Second Empire-style features a mansard roof with straight sides, a central pavilion extending approximately two stories above the roofline, cast-iron roof cresting, and eyebrow-like window heads.

It housed a number of functions including theater, public market, and library. It has housed solely borough offices since 1976.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

References

Borough Hall of the Borough of Waynesboro Wikipedia