You are here

Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside & Southwest » Allegheny Highlands » Alleghany County » Clifton Forge » Clifton Forge Town Hall

Clifton Forge Town Hall

-A A +A
1910–1911; 1944 alterations. 549 Main St.
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)

Forming the civic heart of Clifton Forge, the city hall is a two-story brick structure with a monumental pedimented Doric portico and a simple octagonal clock tower with a cupola. These distinguishing features date from a 1944 rebuilding following a fire that destroyed the original, more elaborate cupola, a modillioned cornice, and Ionic capitals. Notable surviving original features include a stuccoed frieze, monumental brick pilasters, and limestone jack arches above window openings.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Anne Carter Lee
×

Data

What's Nearby

Farrar Building
Alleghany Building
Chesapeake and Ohio Heritage Center (C&O Railroad Freight Depot)
Historic Masonic Temple
U.S. Post Office

Citation

Anne Carter Lee, "Clifton Forge Town Hall", [Clifton Forge, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-AL19.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,