Town Hall (New York)
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| Address | 123 West 43rd Street New York, NY United States |
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| Owner | Town Hall Foundation, Inc. |
| Designation | U.S. National Historic Landmark |
| Capacity | 1,495 |
| Construction | |
| Opened | January 12, 1921 |
| Years active | 1921–current |
| Architect | McKim, Mead & White |
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| Location | 113--123 W. 43rd St., New York, NY |
| Coordinates | 40°45′21″N 73°59′5″W / 40.75583°N 73.98472°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1919 |
| Built by | van der Bent, Teunis J. |
| Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Other, Neo-Federal |
| NRHP reference # | 80002724 |
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| Added to NRHP | April 23, 1980 |
| Designated NHL | March 2, 2012 |
Coordinates: 40°45′22″N 73°59′05″W / 40.755986°N 73.984712°W
The Town Hall is a performance space, located at 123 West 43rd Street, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, in midtown Manhattan New York City. It opened on January 12, 1921, and seats approximately 1,500 people.
In the 1930s, the first public-affairs media programming originated here with the America's Town Meeting of the Air radio programs. In recognition of this the National Park Service placed the building on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, and designated it a National Historic Landmark in 2013.
The Town Hall was built by the League for Political Education, whose fight for passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (women's suffrage) led them to commission the building of a meeting space where people of every rank and station could be educated on the important issues of the day. The space, which became The Town Hall, was designed by the renowned architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, to reflect the democratic principles of the League. To this end, box seats were not included in the theater's design, and every effort was made to ensure that there were no seats with an obstructed view. This design principle gave birth to The Town Hall's long-standing mantra: "Not a bad seat in the house."
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