Memorial Municipal Building (Norwood, Massachusetts)

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Title

Memorial Municipal Building (Norwood, Massachusetts)

Description

Now functioning as Norwood's Town Hall, the Memorial Municipal Building began construction in 1927 and was dedicated on November 11th the following year in memory of the Norwood residents who had given their lives in the Civil and First World Wars. Made of Weymouth granite, the building was designed by William G. Upham in a Late Gothic Revival style, and in its bell-tower houses the Walter F. Tilton Memorial Carillon, the seventh-largest carillon in the United States. On November 11th, 1998 the building was rededicated.

Source

american

Date

1928-01-01

Contributor

Josh Haslett

Language

English

Type

Site

Identifier

40

Extent

cm x cm x cm

Spatial Coverage

current,42.19494,-71.20003;

Rights Holder

Architect - William G. Upham; Mural artist - Jean Jacques Haffner

Europeana

Country

USA

Europeana Data Provider

Memorial Municipal Building

Europeana Type

TEXT

Site Item Type Metadata

Wiki

https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Memorial_Municipal_Building

Monument Type

Memorial hall

Erected by

The Town of Norwood

Funded by

The Town of Norwood

Material

Weymouth seamed-face granite

State

Massachusetts

Affiliation

Union

City

Norwood