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Glenside Memorial Hall often abbreviated "Glenside Hall" is a historic meeting hall located in the
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suburb of Glenside,
Cheltenham Township Cheltenham Township is a home rule township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. Cheltenham's population density ranges from over 10,000 per square mile (25,900 per square kilometer) in rowhouses and high-rise apartments along Chelte ...
, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Glenside Hall was built in 1926, and is a -story, T-shaped, red-brick Colonial Revival-style building with
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trim. It sits on a raised stone foundation and has a
slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
-covered gable roof. It was to honor the veterans of
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. ''Note:'' This includes Today, it is used primarily for banquets, meetings, and other social events. It was added to the
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in 2004. File:Glenside hall sign.JPG, The entrance sign to Glenside Hall File:Glenside Hall.JPG, Close-up of Glenside Hall File:Glensidehallmemorial.JPG, The Veterans for whom the hall is dedicated to File:GSHall.JPG, Glenside Hall


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Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Buildings and structures completed in 1926 Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania {{MontgomeryCountyPA-NRHP-stub