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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
town hall
noun
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▪ Although telephone lines to the city remain severed, a Sarajevo radio reporter said corpses littered the pavement next to the town hall.
▪ As each separate town in Prague had its own town hall and guild system, such guild buildings proliferate.
▪ He placed his voting paper in a special ballot box in Middlesbrough town hall.
▪ He should have parked in the lot be-hind town hall.
▪ It was designed not to resemble a church of any sort but, if anything, a town hall.
▪ She had damn all in the way of information, let alone the illusion of town hall propaganda.
▪ The town hall is set to reopen next year and will include a tourist information centre, library and concert room.
▪ They plan to use bilingual material, phone drives and town hall meetings.
Wiktionary
town hall

n. A building that houses the local government offices of a town.

WordNet
town hall

n. a government building that houses administrative offices of a town government

Wikipedia
Town Hall (disambiguation)

A town hall is a building housing a town government.

Town Hall may also refer to: __NOTOC__

Town Hall (Lakeville, Massachusetts)

The Old Town Hall of Lakeville, Massachusetts, is located at 2 Precinct Street. The two story wood frame building was built in 1856, and is an excellent example of a 19th-century Greek Revival town hall. The building originally housed town offices as well as hosting town meetings; it is now used primarily for the latter function.

The hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Town Hall (Westport, Connecticut)

The Old Town Hall is a historic former municipal building at 90 Post Road East in Westport, Connecticut. Built in 1908 as the town's first purpose-built municipal office building, it is unusual architecturally for using cobblestones within a design that is, overall, Classical Revival in style. In 1979 Westport moved its munical offices to a rehabilitated grade school building.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Town Hall (Sandwich, New Hampshire)

The Town Hall of Sandwich, New Hampshire, is located on Maple Street ( New Hampshire Route 113) in the village of Center Sandwich. The two-story wood frame building was built in 1913, on the foundation of the old town hall, which was destroyed by fire. The Colonial Revival building was designed by J. Randolph Coolidge, a Boston-based architect who summered in the town. The main facade has a temple-front appearance, although it is achieved with four pilasters rather than columns, supporting a fully pedimented gable end. The building's ground floor houses town offices, while the second floor houses an auditorium with stage that is the only facility of its type in the town.

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

Town Hall (Castle Hall)

Town Hall (Castle Hall), also known as the Zionsville Town Hall, is a historic town hall located at Zionsville, Boone County, Indiana. It was built in 1902, and is a two-story, rectangular red brick building measuring 54 feet wide and 80 feet deep. It features a stepped gable end. The interior was remodeled in 1935 to house a movie theater. The building also housed a local chapter of the Knights of Pythias.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Usage examples of "town hall".

Only the Town Hall remained, a pure and radiant altar, tended by the little group which had appeared upon its balcony.