Sandwich Town Hall – 1928

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• I'd like to see more shots of the building next door.

• Where did that thing on the roof go?

• The Cupola and the railing on the roof must have been removed when this building was being renovated. The original door appear to have been replaced as well. I will say that the replace windows look true to the style of the original wood windows.

  The rest of the exterior appears to be unchanged.

• i wonder if that building to it's right was an apartment building

• The top of roof detail was called a " widows walk " and cupola used as a way to vent the attic space.

• I believe the building next door was the old Vendome, or Vendome Hotel. It apparently burned down in ca. 1985, but had been in questionable shape for a long time.

• Does anyone remember a building near there that was in the shape of an inverted ice cream cone? It was, oddly enough, an ice cream outlet. Odd piece of architecture, but neat nonetheless.

• I remember the inverted ice cream cone. It was in front of the post office at Mill and Sandwich in the 60's.

• Jim G is correct, that building was the Vendrome Hotel.
  I thought Andrew ran a peice on it but a search turned up nothing.
  I know there was a picture of it on From the vault in the Star.....
  Just go to google images and search "vendome hotel sandwich"
  The pic from the star will be the first one.
  Beautiful place.

• Vince, thanks for confirming its existence. I was beginning to have doubts. I wonder if Andrew has ever come across photos of that unique structure?