Description

Located in Belmont’s Pleasant Street Historic District, the Belmont Town Hall is a distinctive example of High Victorian brick architecture built in 1881 from a design by Hartwell & Richardson, sporting the trademark central gable spire similar to the one that tops the firm’s most familiar building, the First Spiritual Temple (now the Kingsley Montessori School) in Boston’s Back Bay. Belmont Town Hall is also distinguished by molded brick ornamentation, a conical corner turret, a broad arched entryway, a “streaky bacon” red-and-gray-striped slate roof, and paneled brick chimneys. The Galante Architecture Studio was tasked to restore and preserve the latter two elements, yielding a unified historical composition that continues to crown its sloping site as a monument to Belmont’s architectural heritage.