The Prescott Town House is a historic former town hall on MA 32 in Petersham, Massachusetts.

Prescott Town House
Prescott Town House is located in Massachusetts
Prescott Town House
Prescott Town House is located in the United States
Prescott Town House
LocationPetersham, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°29′56″N 72°11′1″W / 42.49889°N 72.18361°W / 42.49889; -72.18361
Built1838 (1838)
ArchitectSibley, Solomon; Titus, Lucian
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.89000043[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 21, 1989

The building was built in 1838 in a Greek Revival style and served as the town hall for Prescott, Massachusetts, a town that was unincorporated in order to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s. The town house was moved to Petersham, where it is now located on a hill above a hay meadow north of the town center. This move was funded by Judge John Monroe Woolsey, who used the building as a law library and office.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Prescott Town House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-22.