The Tomales Town Hall has received a $5,000 matching grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Hart Family Fund for Small Towns, which supports planning activities and educational efforts focused on preservation. The hall’s trustees will use the grant to hire San Francisco-based Garavaglia Architects, Inc., to create a historic structure report—the first step in a 10-year project to restore and renovate the building. That report will provide Garavaglia with a detailed history of the building and a survey of its cosmetic and structural deficits in order to help the architects decide how best to preserve it. (The hall is beginning a fundraising campaign to match the grant.) Over its 140-year existence, the hall has hosted a variety of notable events, including weddings, high school graduations, funerals, wakes and a rowdy, all-night party to commemorate the arrival of the North Pacific Coast Railroad’s entrance into Tomales in 1875. “It’s a pretty versatile building,” said Ginny Magan, the museum curator at the Tomales Regional History Center. “Everything happens there.”