When the founders of Pittsfield’s Episcopalian church wanted to build their new meetinghouse the land they wanted already had a town-owned structure that was used as a school and town business standing on part of it. In a compromise to build St. Stephen’s Lemuel Pomeroy offered to build a new town hall next door. The plain brick building with a stuccoed front was ready in 1832. It would pick up some styling through the years as it served as Town Hall until 1891 and City Hall afterwards into the middle 1900s when the government shuffled around th ecorner to the old post office. The building was fitted out for use as a bank.
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