Park Theatre

Lee Memorial Town Hall was built in 1873-1874 and dedicated on March 30, 1874, as a memorial to 38 local citizens who died in the Civil War. It was designed in the French Second Empire style by architect Charles T. Rathbun. The building’s modern fame outside of Lee is largely the result of the police court it houses (among other municipal offices) having been the site of young Arlo Guthrie’s 1965 trial for littering, a tale recounted in his comic talking blues recording from 1967, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” (SPOILER ALERT: He was found guilty and had to pay a fifty dollar fine and pick up the garbage.)