Thalian Hall

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Thalian Hall (City Hall) | nrhp_type = cp | nocat = yes | image = City Hall-Thalian Hall (Wilmington, NC) 2.JPG | caption = City Hall-Thalian Hall, September 2009 | location = 310 Chestnut St. and 102 N 3rd St., Wilmington, North Carolina | coordinates = {{coord|34|14|14|N|77|56|48|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = North Carolina#USA | built = {{Start date|1858}} | builder = Post, James F. | architecture = Classical Revival, Late Victorian | added = April 3, 1970 | area = {{convert|0.3|acre}} | refnum = 70000464<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} '''Thalian Hall''' is a historic city hall and theatre located at Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was built in 1858, and is a two-story, five-bay, stuccoed brick building with a combination of restrained Classical Revival and flamboyant Late Victorian design elements. The front facade features a tetrastyle Corinthian order portico. The Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts hosts professional, regional, and local shows to this day and is one of the most heavily utilized historic theatres in the United States.<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | author =Raymond F. Pisney| title =City Hall/Thalian Hall| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date =March 1970| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/NH0001.pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2015-02-01}}</ref> The building has been under the management of the Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. since 1963.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.<ref name="nris"/> It is located in the Wilmington Historic District.

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==External links== {{commonscat-inline|Thalian Hall}} *[http://www.thalianhall.org/overview Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150313105323/http://www.thalianhall.org/overview |date=March 13, 2015 }}

Category:Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Category:City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Category:Former seats of local government Category:Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Category:Victorian architecture in North Carolina Category:Government buildings completed in 1858 Category:Buildings and structures in Wilmington, North Carolina Category:National Register of Historic Places in New Hanover County, North Carolina Category:Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in North Carolina Category:Music venues in North Carolina