Map and Directions To City Hall


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Starting Point - Revere - Marsh Road: Start out going Northeast on Western Ave./MA-107 toward Albion Street (.45 miles) Turn slight right onto Market Square (.14 miles) Market Square becomes S. Common Street (.57 miles) S. Common Street becomes City Hall Square (.06 miles) Total distance: 1.22 miles

Starting Point - General Edwards Bridge (1A): Start out going Northeast on the Lynnway/MA-1A North toward Harding Street (1.29 miles) Turn Left onto Market Street / MA-1A. Continue to follow Market Street (.42 miles) Turn right onto City Hall Square (.01 miles) Total distance: 1.71 miles

Starting Point - Salem - Floating Bridge: Start out on Highland Ave/ MA-107 toward Eastern Ave. Highland Ave will turn into Western Ave. in Lynn just before the bridge. Continue on Western Ave. / MA-107 (2.16 miles) Turn left onto Franklin Street (.45 miles) Turn slight left onto City Hall Square (.06 miles) Total distance: 2.66 miles

Starting Point - 128/95 (Goodwin Circle): Start out taking the 129 East Exit off of 128/95 (This is Exit 44B). Follow to rotary and take the second right onto MA-129 East (3.13 miles) Turn right onto Boston Street (.77 miles) Turn left onto Franklin Street (.58 miles) Turn slight left onto City Hall Square (.06 miles) Total distance: 4.64 miles
* Please note that when taking Route 128 South, continue until Route 1 South, from Route 1 South please take 129 East to Goodwin Circle.

Starting Point - Rt. 1 in Saugus: Take the Walnut Street – Lynn Exit. Stay on Walnut Street for 3 miles and bare left onto Linwood Road. Stay straight on Linwood Road for .5 miles where it will turn into No. Franklin Street. Merely stay straight as Linwood turns into No. Franklin. North Franklin turns into Franklin Street at the intersection of Boston Street (by the back of the Super Stop & Shop). Stay on Franklin for another .5 miles where you will come into City Hall Square. The City Main Library will be on your right, and City monuments in front of you. Bear left into City Hall Square and City Hall will be across the street

City Hall History

The Lynn Memorial City Hall and Memorial Auditorium are listed with the National Register of Historic Places through the United States Department of the Interior. The information below is summarized from NRSH documentation. The full document is available for download below in Acrobat PDF format.

Constructed in 1948-1949, Lynn Memorial City Hall and Auditorium is a late example of an Art Deco-style civic building that also reflects the influence of the contemporaneous Modern Movement in architecture. Monumental in scale, the building is the focal point of City Hall Square.

Exterior

Generally conforming to the shape of its lot, Lynn Memorial City Hall and Auditorium has a unique six-sided, symmetrical footprint that is approximately 262 feet wide at the three-part facade, 184 feet deep, and 95 feet across the rear elevation. The steel-framed structure has a reinforced, poured-concrete foundation that rests on concrete footings. The frame is covered with large buff-colored Indiana limestone slabs laid up with narrow mortar joints that are only visible on close inspection so that the building appears to have a smooth limestone skin.

A course of large granite slabs that match the limestone in color runs along the foundation. The building rises three full stories above a ground floor (now known as the first floor) and a subterranean basement so that there are five interior floors. Two small penthouses, one for the elevator, and a limestone chimney rise through the flat roof, which was originally covered with five-ply tar and gravel, but is now rubber membrane. The symmetrical, three-faceted facade (south elevation) is arranged in a wide V with its point flattened by a canted colossal entrance bay flanked by nine-bay “wings.” The cornerstone of the building, located at the southeast corner of the facade, is a limestone slab incised with the date 1948.

	Internet Links
	National Register of Historic Places The Lynn Memorial City Hall and Memorial Auditorium (PDF Document)

The Lynn City Charter

	Acrobat Documents For Download (PDF)
	City of Lynn Charter (December 2018 Update)
	View the Lynn City Charter Webpage (This page is being updated)

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