Chicopee City Hall

Building Envelope Evaluation and Restoration
Chicopee, MA

The Project

Gale recently completed the rehabilitation of Chicopee City Hall. Constructed in 1871, Chicopee City Hall is two-story building with gable roofs and is listed on the National List of Historic Places. There is also four-story addition that was constructed in 1927. The building is in the Italianate style, with a rose window and a 147-foot clock tower modeled on that of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The building features large stained-glass windows and stylistic stone corbelling and arches.

Gale’s Services

• Historic brick masonry restoration with lime putty mortar
• Historic sandstone masonry restoration including in-kind stone replacement
• Window replacement incorporating historically accurate aluminum-clad cherry and steel framed windows
• Natural slate roof restoration and copper gutter/flashing replacement
• Low slope membrane roof replacement including metal coping
• Standing seam metal wall panel and roof replacement
• Rose window stone tracery and west wall structural stabilization
• Structural stabilization of tower gables including replacement of coping stones
• Structural analysis for auditorium floor framing load capacity and design of necessary augmentation
• Structural framing for “floating” historic mezzanine railing and glazed interior entrance
• Structural engineering for auditorium attic ceiling improvements and chandelier mounting brackets
• Structural engineering for projection screen ceiling supports
• Structural engineering for through-mezzanine wheelchair lift