{"id":2023,"date":"2010-11-08T06:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T06:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2010-11-08T06:01:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T06:01:14","slug":"danvers-town-hall-1855","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"Danvers Town Hall (1855)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Danvers-Town-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Danvers Town Hall\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Danvers-Town-Hall.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Danvers-Town-Hall-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Greek Revival <a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.patch.com\/listings\/town-hall-3\">Town Hall<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/etext.virginia.edu\/salem\/witchcraft\/Danvers.html\">Danvers<\/a> was built in 1855, the same year South Danvers, now Peabody, broke away to become a separate town.  The building, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/celebrationofone00danv#page\/n11\/mode\/1up\">which originally contained the town&#8217;s high school<\/a> as well as town offices, went through major expansions and renovations in the 1880s, 1899, and late 1940s.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlocal.com\/danvers\/town_info\/government\/x1579122368\/Uncovering-soot-and-history-ay-Danvers-Town-Hall\">the most recent renovation<\/a>, in 2009-2010, has focused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danvers.govoffice.com\/vertical\/Sites\/%7BCFC0250F-19AB-46E7-B599-146187CB1799%7D\/uploads\/%7BE58FAC2B-FF17-4A69-A9E8-98E62F9A3B85%7D.PDF\">repairing the exterior<\/a> and replacing mechanical systems.  While this work was being done, the roof was damaged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemnews.com\/local\/x1081152312\/Danvers-Town-Hall-fire-is-out\">a 3-alarm fire<\/a>, sparked when wood sheathing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2009\/09\/historic_danver.html\">was ignited<\/a> from a contractor&#8217;s soldering of copper flashing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek Revival Town Hall of Danvers was built in 1855, the same year South Danvers, now Peabody, broke away to become a separate town. The building, which originally contained the town&#8217;s high school as well as town offices, went through major expansions and renovations in the 1880s, 1899, and late 1940s. The the most recent renovation, in 2009-2010, has focused repairing the exterior and replacing mechanical systems. While this work was being done, the roof was damaged by a 3-alarm fire, sparked when wood sheathing was ignited from a contractor&#8217;s soldering of copper flashing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,38,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danvers","category-greek-revival","category-public-buildings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}