Witherbee Memorial Hall is a historic
workingmen's club building located at
Mineville in
Essex County, New York
Essex County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,381. Its county seat is the hamlet of Elizabethtown. Its name is from the English county of Essex. Essex is one of only 2 counties that are ...
. It was built in 1893 by the Witherbee, Sherman & Co. mining company. It is a massive
Shingle Style structure. It is a T-shaped wood-frame structure with a long, rectangular, gable fronted main block. The front elevation features a prominent, recessed second story balcony highlighted by paired
Doric order
The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of col ...
columns.
[ ''See also:'' ] It is now owned and operated by Mineville
VFW
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Post 5802. It also houses a six lane
bowling
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), though ...
center.
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 1991.
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Gallery
File:Memorial Hall Close Up.jpg, Close up view of Memorial Hall
File:Memorial Hall from the side.jpg, Memorial Hall from the side
References
Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Shingle Style architecture in New York (state)
Cultural infrastructure completed in 1893
Buildings and structures in Essex County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, New York
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