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Historic Register

A state board has found the Temple Town Hall eligible for both the state and national Historic Registers. While important long-term, the immediate result is that the project is eligible for a New Hampshire "Moose plate" grant. The plan is to apply for funding toward restoring windows in the main hall. (As the maximum grant is $10,000, it would only cover some of the windows.) We will be filing the application for the Moose grant by the 25 May due date.

Bass Announces Grant Award

The December 9th snowstorm reached whiteout conditions when Representative Charlie Bass drove his Suburban over Temple Mountain to attend a program in his honor at the Temple Town Hall. After enjoying lunch at the Congregational Souper Luncheon, Representative Bass greeted 50 or so intrepid Temple residents who gathered in the Town Hall to thank him personally for his help in obtaining a federal grant of $225,000 to aid in the Hall's restoration.
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The Temple Town Hall, built in the heart of the village in 1842, served first as a Universalist meetinghouse, then for many years as a Grange Hall. It was purchased by the Town in 1888, and for the next century was the town’s prime communal gathering place. Until the late 1900s, when population pressures became too great, townsfolk gathered in the Hall for Town Meeting.

In former times, Selectmen and other town officials used the old hall as a meeting and working place. Today it is no longer used as a municipal building, but civic organizations congregate here for events, rehearsals, elections; private citizens assemble for parties, dances, and receptions. Sounds of laughter and debate from years gone by echo from the old tin ceiling, mingling with strains of the caller’s fiddle... the swing and sway of the 1940s Temple Orchestra... the oom-pah-pah of today’s Temple Band.
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The physical renovation of this provincial Greek Revival building will be the underpinning to a vital goal -- to nurture Temple’s powerful spirit of community by enabling our Town Hall to thrive once more as the heartbeat of the village. A two-story addition to the back of the original building will house an up-to-date kitchen, an additional restroom, and urgently needed storage space -- and will provide a practical, energy-efficient small meeting room for the community at large: for classes and workshops, meetings of small municipal boards and social organizations, youth and senior activities, and the like. The building’s visual impact will be unaltered.

Once again, the 21st-century Town Hall will flourish -- a hub of social and cultural activity destined to revitalize village life.

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"Of Mutts & Men"
2006 Calendar. All proceeds to benefit the Temple Town Hall Restoration Project