Larrowe House, also known as The Cohocton Town and Village Hall, is a historic home located at Cohocton in

Steuben County, New York Steuben County (stu-BEN) is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 93,584. Its county seat is Bath. Its name is in honor of Baron von Steuben, a Prussian general who fought on the American ...

. It is a 38 by 40 foot, two story dwelling constructed in 1856 in the

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style. There is a square

cupola In architecture, a cupola () is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome. The word derives, via Italian, from ...

in the center of the roof. The Larrowe family donated the house in 1950 for use as a

municipal 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 ...

. ''See also:'' It remained in that use until the Cohocton Historical Society acquired the house in August 2009. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1989.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Italianate architecture in New York (state) Houses completed in 1856 Houses in Steuben County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Steuben County, New York {{SteubenCountyNY-NRHP-stub