Edgewater Village Hall

111 Canal Street | Stapleton | built 1889

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1889

   The Village of Edgewater builds a brick village hall with a short square tower in Tappan Park

   Edgewater, incorporated as a village in 1866, put up this T-shaped brick hall in 1889 to house its civic business. The one-and-a-half-story building shows Romanesque Revival influence, with a square tower capped by a low concave spire and a flagpole, and second-floor dormer windows that break through the deep bracketed eaves. It stands in a small landscaped square called Tappan Park.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1893

   A guide to Stapleton calls the hall's courtroom one of the finest around New York

   Four years after the hall opened, a publication titled "Descriptive Sketch of Stapleton" praised its courtroom as among the best on Staten Island or anywhere near New York City. It described the brick building as substantial and well suited to its purpose. The Municipal Court and the City Magistrate's Court both sat here until new courthouses were built.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1968

   July 30

   The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates Edgewater Village Hall, by then a Health Department building

   Two years after a September 1966 hearing at which two witnesses, one from the Parks Department, spoke in favor and none against, the commission named the old village hall a landmark. By then the building was in use by the New York City Health Department. The commission called it a fine Victorian municipal building of a type fast disappearing from big American cities.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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