Memorial Municipal Building
Now functioning as Norwood’s Town Hall, the Memorial Municipal Building began construction in 1927 and was dedicated on November 11th the following year in memory of the Norwood residents who had given their lives in the Civil and First World Wars. Made of Weymouth granite, the building was designed by William G. Upham in a Late Gothic Revival style, and in its bell-tower houses the Walter F. Tilton Memorial Carillon, the seventh-largest carillon in the United States. On November 11th, 1998 the building was rededicated.
Monument type:
Memorial hall
Artist:
Architect - William G. Upham; Mural artist - Jean Jacques Haffner
Dedication Date:
November 11, 1928 (rededicated November 11, 1998)
Address:
USA
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Opening Date:
1928
Material:
Weymouth seamed-face granite
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Erected by:
The Town of Norwood
Funded by:
The Town of Norwood
Run by:
Indigenous Land
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