Attention stone - City Hall Waspik

City Hall Waspik (1875-1938)

The dilapidation of Waspik's first town hall led to the commissioning of a new town hall in 1875. The building housed municipal offices, the council chamber and the mayor's office on the second floor. The beautiful double staircase at the front gave access to the town hall and gave the building a distinguished appearance. The door below the staircase was the entrance to "the cachot," where lawbreakers were incarcerated. A special detail in the façade was the slightly forward built center section, crowned with a tympanum, a triangular decoration. The staircase disappeared during a later renovation. All that remains of it is the bluestone platform that now lies as a sidewalk in front of the front door.