Babylon Town Hall, also known as Town of Babylon Old Town Hall, is a historic town hall

Seat of local government

In local government, a city hall, town hall or a municipal building or civic centre, is the chief administrative building of a city...

 located at Babylon

Babylon (village), New York

Babylon is a village in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 12,615 at the 2000 census.Its official name is The Incorporated Village of Babylon...

 in Suffolk County, New York

Suffolk County, New York

Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,493,350. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came...

. It was built in 1917 and is a -story Classical Revival style building with a low hipped roof. It is rectangular in shape, approximately 58 feet long and 54 feet wide. It features a cupola

Cupola

In architecture, a cupola is a small, most-often dome-like, structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome....

 at the center of the roof and a large 2-story portico with four Doric order

Doric order

The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:...

 columns. It housed town offices until 1957, and housed district courts from the late 1940s until 1992, when it was sold. Old Town Hall was purchased back by the town in June 2004 and rededicated on Sunday, October 24, 2004.

It became a New York State Historic Site in 1986, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 2005.