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PM Final Study Report Mashpee Historic District Page 9 of 15 is pilasters. A brick deck with brick posts and a simple metal baluster lead to this entrance. Above the en a stone sign try �is with engraved lettering that reads, "SAME G. DAVIS SCHOOL." Attached to this ell on the north is a large, one-story, flat-roof brick addition. .A secondary entrance that is currently used as the town hall entrance is located on the facade (west elevation). This entrance is set within a one-story,projecting, flat-roof porch supported by brick piers with a sign reading in gold lettering, "MASHPEE TOWN HALL." Fenestration includes 6/6double- hung sash windows and a large, arched picture window on the south elevation,while the large addition has modern, fixed 24-light paired windows. Two gable-roof dormers pierce the roof of the main block. An interior brick chimney is located on the west roof slope of the main block. The main block of the building is embellished by cornice returns, comerboards, and a hip-roof cupola. The entire building is decorated with a molded stringcourse. Paved parking lots are located at the front, south and rear sides of the building and a ball field is located to the rear. Grass, trees, and shrubs dot the property. Mashpee's first town hall (not extant) building was constructed in North Mashpee in 1888. On June 3, 1887, Oliver Holmes' wife, Mary Francis Robinson sold a tract of land on the north side of Main Street (the parcel currently listed by the Assessors as Map 36, Block 12)to the Mashpee Public Hall Library Society for$1 on the condition that the building be built within one year. It was a one-and-one-half story, Greek Revival-style building. The building was leased to the Town of Mashpee and used for office space, meetings and polling until 1905 when the Mashpee Public Hall Library Society.voted to sell the land and buildings to the,town. It was later converted to be the town's Fire Station until replaced and burned in the 1970s. The current building was erected with funds from Samuel G. Davis, a Boston philanthropist. The Maftee Public Library/Archives Building at 13 Great Neck Road North (MHC 141 built in 1965 and dedicated June 18, 1967, is a one-and-one-half-story, Classical Revival-style, side- I gable building clad in brick and wood shingle and set on a concrete foundation. The 3-bay facade (east elevation)houses the central entry which is set within a projecting gable-roof porch supported by simple wood posts with Doric capitals. Fenestration consists of 6/6 double-hung sash windows, and an octagonal fixed window on the north and south elevations. An interior brick chimney pierces the west roof slope toward the south. The building is embellished by L quoins on the facade, wide comerboards, cornice returns, and a hip-roof cupola. The building is set back approximately 20 feet from the street with a paved driveway to the south. Grass, trees, and shrubs dot the property. It was converted for use as the Town Archives building in 1987 when a new library was built on Route 151. The original one-story, one-room, hip-roof library building was built in 1928 on property Wallace Coombs sold to the town. The building was located opposite the 1965 Public Library/ i Archives Building near the site of the existing Samuel G. Davis School/Town Hall on Great Neck Road North (MHC 15). During the school construction in 1939, this library building was moved near the land of the Lysander Amos House at 28 Great Neck Road North (MHC 31) (Burns 1995, 1999: 30;Ferragamo 1993). The one-room library was opened on Friday nights for school needs and at request. Occasionally it served as a dental facility for schoolchildren (Mills L 1996). This library was reportedly staffed by Isadora Pells and her husband Ambrose Pells, who was known by the Native American name Rain-in-the-Face.