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