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1908, Silas W. Smith. 1360 Greene St. (corner of 14th St.)

A silvery, egg-shaped dome caps the open bell tower of this two-story building with a second-story balcony under a Neoclassical pediment supported by paired Ionic columns. Built of Silverton's distinctive local rosy-purple sandstone, it was restored in the 1970s, then re-restored after a Thanksgiving weekend fire in 1992 caused by a heating system that kept snow off the roof. The original town hall and fire station (1883), with a hook and ladder carved over the door, still stands at 1245 Blair Street.

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Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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Thomas J. Noel, "Town Hall", [Silverton, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-SA05.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 562-563.

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