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Christine Freeman Directory - Volume 1 (A-I) (332 pages)
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Court House, continued:
will be forty-one feet fram the roof of the building to the top of the
dome, and eighty-five feet fran the ground to the highest point. — The
dame will be octagonal in shape, resting upon a square base. The first
section or base will be sixteen feet ten inches square. The second
section will consist of eight columns arranged as an octagon and forming the belfry. This part is fourteen feet in diameter and seventeen
feet high. Upon these columns rests an ornamental section, neatly
corniced and three feet high. Upon this section will rest the dome.
The whole will be neatly finished and will greatly add to the beauty
of the building. The Supervisors will soon be ready to receive bids
for building this dome.
NI February 28, 1867 p2c2: That Belfry or Cupola. Mr. Editor:
From the papers it appears the Board of Supervisors of the county
submit the project of placing a cupola forty-one feet high upon the
top of our present elegant and costly Court House. The cost of this
little ornamental affair is variously estimated at from three to five
thousand dollars. Undoubtedly the finances of the county are ina
healthy condition, and three or five thousand dollars is not much for
the people to pay. Probably on the score of cost no objection would be
raised to the building of the proposed cupola. But there are other
serious considerations touching this matter. We have an excellent
Court House now, which cost the county more than fifty thousand
dollars. It stands firm and is without blemish. It is really a most
creditable structure. — We all feel proud of it as it stands. Why not
let well enough alone? If we go to tinkering the building, who knows
but the roof may not come to be in the same condition as nine-tenths
of all the roofs in town, letting more water in than they turn off?
What power will the winds have on a cupola forty one feet high? Are
the walls of the building such that the jarring of a bell and the
power of the wind upon the belfry, will have no effect upon the
mortar? Do we need a belfry forty one feet high, or about the height
of the building itself? Do we need a cupola at all? I have conversed
with dozens of men upon the subject, and have never yet met an earnest
advocate of tampering with the present excellent and really handsame
Court House. I believe the tax payers of the town are not in favor of
attempting to patch the Court House at all, but are for letting it
alone, merely putting same substantial structure on the jail, for the
bell, so as to save the walls of that building. But let us hear fran
the public on this subject. One of the People.
NI March 2, 1867 p2c2: The Cupola For The Court House. Since
the Board of Supervisors have advertised for proposals to build a
cupola, the matter has been generally talked of, and many seem to
think that it well not improve the building in appearance, while it
may do it considerable damage. We understand that this is the opinion
of Mr. Butler, the architect who planned the Court House. He thinks
that the better plan would be to erect a belfry on the jail. The Board
of Supervisors have taken no final action in the matter yet, and only
desire to do the best that can be done for the interests of the
county. The Grand Jury called the attention of the Board to the fact
that the walls of the jail were being injured by the ringing of the
bell, and advised the erection of a bell tower. The Board concluded
the best way to provide a tower and an ornament for the building would
be by the erection of the proposed cupola, adopted the plan and
advertised for contracts. There is no opposition to the proposed
structure on account of the cost, the only question seems to be as to
its beauty and utility. The NATIONAL advocated the cupola, and after
quoting a communication published in the TRANSCRIPT a few days since,
in which the writer opposed the erection of a cupola, that paper says:
(Long quote of the NATIONAL which concludes saying ) "Of
course a belfry can be put upon the Court House by any architect fit
for his business. It would greatly improve its appearance, for at
present it lacks finish and the completeness which should crown it."
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