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The North Town Hall is one of two historic 19th-century town halls in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Located at 31 Princeton Street, near the North Chelmsford village center, it is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure with Greek Revival styling. It was built in 1853, and was used, alternating with the Centre Town Hall, for town meetings until 1885.
Chelmsford (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ l m s f ər d /) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Chelmsford was incorporated in May 1655 by an act of the Massachusetts General Court. When Chelmsford was incorporated, its local economy was fueled by lumber mills, limestone quarries, kilns.
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The assembly hall was later renamed the Chelmsford Theatre. [10] The civic centre continued to serve as the headquarters of the borough council for much of the 20th century and remained the local seat of government after the council area was enlarged to include the former surrounding rural district in 1974. [11]
Proposition 2½ (Mass. Gen. L. c. 59, § 21C) is a Massachusetts statute that limits property tax assessments and, secondarily, automobile excise tax levies by Massachusetts municipalities. The name of the initiative refers to the 2.5% ceiling on total property taxes annually as well as the 2.5% limit on property tax increases.
The Duke Street block was designed with a view to it being later extended to incorporate a council chamber, but in 1913 the council decided not to pursue the extension on grounds of cost, preferring to continue to meet at both Shire Hall and in London. [7] By the late 1920s it was clear that further expansion was needed.
The headquarters of Essex County Council is at County Hall, Duke Street [23] and the headquarters of Chelmsford City Council at Chelmsford Civic Centre, Duke Street. [24] The civic centre was designed by Cordingley & McIntyre as a public library and completed in April 1935.