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Norfolk Grange Hall

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80: 299:), a short way north of Norfolk's village center. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The center section of the front (west-facing) facade projects slightly, and supports a two-stage tower topped by a flared roof. The building's corners are quoined, and the front gable is fully pedimented, with modillions at the rake and eave edges. Entrances are found to either side of the center projecting section, topped by half-round transom windows. 1079: 105: 1091: 623: 63: 310:, and then in the old congregational meeting house when that was vacated by its congregation in 1842. In 1861, with that building requiring extensive repairs, the congregation opted to build a new edifice, resulting in the construction of this building the following year. It served that congregation, with minimal alteration, until 1921, when its declining enrollment prompted the sale of the building to the local Grange chapter. 1068: 112: 87: 313:
The Grange chapter, organized in 1886, and took a significant place in the then-agricultural community that it has maintained to this day. It updated the building, adding electricity and plumbing, and has over the years opened it to all manner of civic and social functions. From 1922, when the town
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hall burned down, until 1949, town meetings and other town business was conducted here. The public library was housed in space at its rear from 1922 to 1956. Of the town's 19th-century public buildings, only the Federated Church is older (built in 1832).
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The Baptists of Norfolk were organized about 1800, when the area was known as North
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The Norfolk Grange Hall is set on the east side of Rockwood Road (
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Religious buildings and structures completed in 1863
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and used as its meeting hall. It was listed on the
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Norfolk Grange Hall is located in Massachusetts
Norfolk Grange Hall is located in the United States
Norfolk, Massachusetts
42°7′20″N 71°19′58″W / 42.12222°N 71.33278°W / 42.12222; -71.33278
Rockwood Road Historic District
ID100000850
89000438
Grange hall
Baptist
Norfolk, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places
Massachusetts Route 115
Wrentham
Medfield
National Register of Historic Places listings in Norfolk County, Massachusetts


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
Norfolk Grange # 135 website



"NRHP nomination for Norfolk Grange Hall"
Norfolk Grange # 135 website

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