For more than 200 years, Salem’s Old Town Hall has been a city landmark, its brick, Federal-style edifice presiding grandly over Derby Square. But its municipal building days are long behind it, and today Old Town Hall often stands empty, reserved for special event rentals, seasonal theater performances, and as a backdrop for Hocus Pocus filming location photos.
“This building is such a community icon. It’s so well loved and underutilized with hardly any real transparent means to access,” says Julie Barry,
