North Salem Town Hall is a historic

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located at Salem Center,

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. It was built about 1770 by the DeLancey family as a private home. It has been used for governmental and educational functions since 1773. It is a three-story frame building, covered in clapboard, five bays wide and three bays deep on a

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foundation in a vernacular

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style. It has a gambrel roof topped by a six-sided

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. From 1790 to 1884 it housed the North Salem Academy and, after 1886, the town offices of

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. ''Note:'' This includes an
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in 1980.

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City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Georgian architecture in New York (state) Government buildings completed in 1770 Buildings and structures in Westchester County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Westchester County, New York 1770 establishments in the Province of New York {{WestchesterCountyNY-NRHP-stub

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