Tonawanda Municipal Building is a historic
municipal building Municipal Building may refer to the following places:
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* Crossett Municipal Building, Crossett, AR, listed on the NRHP in Arkansas
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located at
Kenmore in
Erie County, New York
Erie County is a county along the shore of Lake Erie in western New York State. As of the 2020 census, the population was 954,236. The county seat is Buffalo, which makes up about 28% of the county's population. Both the county and Lake Erie w ...
. It was designed by the noted Buffalo architecture firm
Green and James and built in 1936 with funds provide by the
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...
. It is a two-story, steel frame and brick building clad in
limestone
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with
Art Deco
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design elements. The building serves as home to both the Village of Kenmore and
Town of Tonawanda
Tonawanda (formally the Town of Tonawanda) is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 72,636. The town is at the north border of the county and is the northern inner ring suburb of B ...
governments.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 2013.
Gallery
File:Tonawanda Municipal Building Marker Apr 13.JPG, Tonawanda Municipal Building Historical Marker, Kenmore, NY, April 2013
References
External links
Official Website of the Village of KenmoreOfficial Website of the Town of TonawandaWaymarking: Village of Kenmore, NY
Works Progress Administration in New York (state)
City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Art Deco architecture in New York (state)
Government buildings completed in 1936
Government buildings in New York (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Erie County, New York
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