The Anna Town Hall is a historic brick
town hall
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses ...
in
Anna
Anna may refer to:
People Surname and given name
* Anna (name)
Mononym
* Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke
* Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773)
* Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century)
* Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221)
...
,
Ohio,
United States. Built in 1880,
it originally included space for the village offices, a
jail
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correc ...
, a
fire station, and a community
theater. The building's brick architecture presents a stark contrast to the majority of buildings in the village, which includes primarily
frame structures.
[Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 2. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 1271.]
Although the first settlers in the vicinity of modern Anna arrived in 1833, the village was started a quarter century later; it was
platted in 1858 by landowner John W. Carey and named for his daughter, Anna Carey. Shortly after the village
incorporated in 1877, the need for a community government building became apparent, and the present structure was erected on the main road from the
canal town
''Canal Town'' is the title of a 1944 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams.
Synopsis
The novel is set in the 1820s in the town of Palmyra, New York, near Rochester, located on the Erie Canal. The novel opens in 1820, when the construction of the E ...
of
Minster to a
rail line operated by a predecessor of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...
.
In recognition of its place in local history and of its well-preserved historic architecture, the Anna Town Hall was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
References
External links
Village website
{{National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
National Register of Historic Places in Shelby County, Ohio
Government buildings completed in 1880
Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
Jails on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
Buildings and structures in Shelby County, Ohio
Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
1880 establishments in Ohio