Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-29
Tha Conntx Court Houae.

Tho Addfaaona1 Bu1lding to be Erected Genera1 Textures or she Improvement.
 The county commissioners have received
 the plans and specifications from Brown &
 Stillson for the additional building to the
 county court house. The additional strue-
 ture will stand id the rear of the Law Charus
 bers building and will be in.consonance with
 the general design of the court house and
 fine addition. It will have a frontage of 45
 feet, q depth oe 90 feet and will set of 16
 feet from the main building to be connected by an arohwsy, It will stand 56 feet back from the front of the present building and
 be three stories high above the cellar. A few notes from the specifications are as follows: The first story is to be 24 inches above the first floor of the present building and 16 feet high in the clear and arranged for offices, witness rooms, vaults, etc. The second story \ will be 33 feet high and occupied by the criminal, court room, with spectators' gall lery in the front and with judges retiring
 room with vault, State attorney's room and bar lobby under the gallery Gall of the height shown by the sectional drawing). The two buildings are to be connected by passage Y 4AAA41-A~SA HACAASc, the front and rear walls spanning the 16 feet passageway. The foundations for the cellar
 and walls are to be of East Haven dimension
 stone laid in trenches 16 inches below
 the cellar bottom. the stones to aver age 12 inches thick and in length twelve inches longer than the thickness of the cellar wall on top of them. The stones are all to be worked onto solid bed, round ed down and the chinEs filled with masons' chips and the whole grouted with clear liquid cement On both sides and across the rear
 there is to be four by twelve inch ground caping of blue stone set edgewise and flush with the brickwork. The cellar win dowsills will be of blue stone four by twelve,
 laid feet and two inches above the grade and four inches longer than the open ing The platform to the entrance in front l is to be eight inches thick by four by eight feet, with risers of sixteen inches thick and work laid in black mortar and to be five steps each eight by sixteen by forty-eight inches, showing fourteen inch treads.
 For the entrances on the side there will be steps 78 inches long, 8 inches thick by 24 inches wide, threshold 7-8 inches long, 8 inches thick and 22 inches wide, and for small side entrance, step 4-8 inches long, A inches wide and feet thick; all thresholds ! cut with Jugs and weatherngs and inches [ of on the inside edge Across the front 1 there will be granite water table Sx8 inches, \ with wash on top weathered three-quarter inches down. The bases of the columns supporting arch or passageway to be of granite The vault foundation walls will be ! built of East Haven stone under the brick work of the vaults. All the windows in the front of the building, iR the | first, second and third stories, will have sills sx12 and 12 inches longer than the op- | enings the sills for all windows in the rear | wall over passage way and in the rear and
 both sides of main building above the cellar l to be of brown stone. The front wall over passageway will be faced with Portland brown stone ashlar varying in thickness from to 12 inches and of width and length fig
 ured on the detail drawings. All carved work and columns around windows and column bases will be of yellow Ohio stone, the columns to large arch over driveway to be of brown stone with yellow Ohio stone caps and bases The sofit of the arch will be of stone and the back of wall faced with stone up to
 the Aoor joists, diaper work in spandrels of arch cut in, and carried like tile and to be ! inches thick. The ventilating shaft will be of brick in the rear carrying up Hue 24x36 with 8 inch brick wall around it. The sup. port of the floor of the lookup room will be with 6 inch rolled wrought iron girders. The specifications give further particulars as to the oval shute, drain pipes, tiling in vesti-
 bule, ash bin, lathing, plastering, whitewash-
 ing, grates and mantels. furnaces, Tagging of
 walks around the building, deafening, wain-
 scouting, outside paving.
 The old brick building on the premises is
 to be taken down by the contractor and he is
 to use such material taken from it as will be
 fit for the new work.