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Marshfield Town Hall - 870 Moraine Street - 1976 - Present
Photo courtesy of Donna L. Beals |
The present town hall offices are located at 870 Moraine Street in the downtown business center. It was built around 1976 on the property that was formerly owned by Dr. McKenzie, the brother of the late Rosalyn G. "Rose" Murray.
The town hall offices were formerly located in the old Seth Ventress Building on South River Street opposite the Marshfield Fairgrounds and beside the Marshfield Central Fire Station.
Today, this location serves at the home to many town offices. On the first floor as you enter from the parking lot into the lobby and pass through the inner double doors and take your left, you will find the Collector Office window first where all bill payments are received for utilities, real estate, excise, you name it. Then you come around the corner and find the Treasurer's window on your left with the Human Resource/Benefits Coordinator's office on your right. Continuing down the hall on the first floor you next come to the Town Clerk's window where you one can register to vote, find out what meetings are scheduled and their agendas, apply for a marriage license, do genealogical research on births, marriages, and deaths that took place in Marshfield and even, register your dog. The next door to the Clerk's Office in the corner is the Town Accountant's office where the financial records of the town are maintained and bills paid out of. As you continue around the corner, you find the information technology department with a staff of two and handles the townwide GIS, internet and computers of the town. The next set of doors give access to the upstairs, the elevator system, and the employee's lounge - but we will continue past here and stay on the first floor. Just past these doors you come to the Board of Health suite of offices on your left. Next you come to a big window on your left - this is the Assessor's office, where you can find out information on your property and where all the deed books are kept and property cards. Opposite this window on your right a small mailroom for all town offices. Next to this room is the personnel/payroll clerk, who oversees all town payroll operations. On your left in the corner is the Building Department and just before we exit the first floor and go upstairs is the Veteran's Office.
Now that you have have a tour of the downstairs - we go out the doors and up the stairs. At the top of the stairway, you go through the door ahead of you - to your left is the Solid Waste Division of DPW window where residents can bring cash or check for $20.00 and the registration to the vehicle they are taking in, and purchase a sticker to access the transfer station, as long as they meet other requirements as well. Or, get a new recycling bin and find out when their curbside pickup is. This window also connects to the Superintendent and secretary handling the Board of Public Works matters, cemetery records, use of Couch cemetery permissions, Adopt-an-Island program, and TreeCity USA program.
Opposite this window is the office of the Town Administrator, and as you turn back towards the door you came through and continue around - the Selectman's office is located to your right as you came through the door from the stairs - followed by three hearing rooms, the first is the Selectman's hearing room, then a smaller hearing room, and a larger one. Use of these rooms is available by reservation at the Selectman's office. Just after the third hearing room is the Planning Board office that operates out of Hearing Room #1 on the corner on your right at the end of this hall. Straight ahead, and to the left the Planning Board office, is the Zoning (ZBA) office.
You then pass a set of door leading back down stairs to the employee's lounge on the first floor and the elevator and come to the next office on your right which is the Conservation Department. Opposite the Conservation Department is the Water/Engineering window, where visitors can check into the DPW and are directed to location or person who best can handle their situation. Access to the men's room is located next to this window in a small room that houses the newest plan scanner.
With the tour now complete, you can exit down the back stairs or use the elevator to the first floor.
