Three of the most famous buildings in Newtown will be receiving a bronze plaque indicating that these buildings have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. These buildings are included in the Main Street Historic District and are located on Main Street — or Newtown Street as it originally was known. The buildings are the Newtown Meeting House, Edmond Town Hall, and Cyrenius H. Booth Library.

The magnificent Edmond Town Hall was a gift of the town benefactress Mary Elizabeth Hawley, built in 1930 and named for Miss Hawley's maternal great-grandfather, Judge William Edmond. Judge Edmond was the only Newtown resident to ever serve in the US Congress. The cornerstone was laid in 1929 and the building was dedicated after Miss Hawley's death.

Edmond Town Hall was the most spectacular town hall in Connecticut at the time. It was designed in Georgian Colonial and embellished with marble, Tiffany silver, solid brass chandeliers, a theater for talking movies, a bowling alley, a gymnasium, a ballroom, the Alexandria Room, and even lava rock floors.

The plaque reads as follows: "Edmond Town Hall has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.""

The Cyrenius H. Booth Library was also a gift of Ms Hawley, and was built in 1932. It was designed as a Georgian Colonial and, without the current addition, looked very much like a private home with classic lines and a welcoming front door. The library was named for Miss Hawley's grandfather, one of Newtown's well-known doctors during the middle 19th Century.

The plaque reads: "Cyrenius H. Booth Library, Newtown, Connecticut has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. 1930."

The Newtown Meeting House originally served as a town meeting house where local citizens met to conduct and legislate town business, large and small, as well as to congregate local citizens on Sundays as a place of worship for those loyal to the Church of England, the Congregational Church.

Since 1720, the gleaming white Meeting House with its adjacent flagpole, stood in an extremely prominent position at the top of a hill and at the crossroads of a north-south Indian trail. In 1792, the Meeting House was enlarged and moved about eight rods by General John Chandler and his committee and set slightly back from the flagpole.

The church and parts of it were rebuilt in 1816 and again in 1845. The Congregational Church no longer holds services there, and the building is now dedicated as the Newtown Meeting House, perhaps reverting back to its original intention and mission.

The plaque reads: "Newtown Meeting House has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior, Built: 1720, Moved 1792, Rebuilt 1816 & 1845."

The bronze plaques have been crafted by the Healy Brothers Foundry in Manville, R.I., and are a gift of Mae S. Schmidle, who is the chairman of the Newtown Architectural Survey Committee. The Newtown Architectural Survey Committee is the committee that has planned and is conducting the survey of all the historic buildings and residences in Newtown. Survey work on most of the town buildings has been completed with just a small part of Sandy Hook still in progress.