Glen Carbon Village Hall and Firehouse
Glen Carbon Village Hall and Firehouse is a historic building at 180 Summit Avenue in Glen Carbon, Illinois. It was built in 1910 by the Oswald Brothers in a Neoclassical style and served as Glen Carbon’s first village hall. The village, founded in 1892, used the upper floor for government offices and the lower floor for the fire department.
In the 1910s, the building was the site of unusual political moments, including a tie vote decided by pulling a number from a hat, and village president Hiram Slinger, Jr.’s nominees for treasurer being rejected by the trustees seventeen times.
The village government moved to the former Glen Carbon Grade School in 1954, and the fire department moved to a new firehouse in 1981. Today, the building is used as meeting space by a model railroad club and a local Boy Scout troop. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 2018.
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