Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-08-03
THE STATE HOUSE.
A Plea Against Its DemOIft1On-Wants
$4,000 Laid Out Upon 1t.

Plea Against Its DemOlitiOn-Wants
$4,000 Laid Out Upon 1t.
The central location, the solid masonry of
it's outer and inner walls, the easy adaptation
of all the high, well ventilated rooms of the
basement as of the second and third floors of
the building for public halls, public library
and reading rooms, for society, school, court
rooms, in short for every department of city
government use, and easy adaptation for al
most every useful purpose to which any
building can be devoted, all these and many
more strong considerations serve to show
most conclusively the grievous wrong of
those who advocate the demolition of our
excellent Capitol building. Agnostic and
iconoclastic Chat is, "know-nothing" and
'tpull-down,' ~ low attributes of our fallen
humanity advocate and advise destruction.
They ask citizens 0f good sense and ability
to yield their considerations of public good,
public honor and righteousness to considera-
lions of self-interest or self-concelt which
characterize the pull-down party of nnr city.
This State especially, New England too in its
length and breadth, and our whole country
have an abiding interest i'll so historic, SO
classic and SO useful a building. Memories
of patriotic uses which in the war of the re-
bellion it served and previously as building
for the State for the Probate and other
courts, as well for the legislature and
State officers, horticultural exhibitions, pub
lie and society receptions, make the building
sacred and worthy of careful preservation
and honor.
he The ill-concealed plot to sweep every build
y; eff the upper Green is now openly con-
US thel- Yes, these plotters say, 1--WE would
es | only liz building removed" Conced1ng
+. dents ana such opinion, based as 1t Is
have better and conceit, the old resi-
he OnlnlOQ
}. who advocate tho SID rlgnt 70 De nea I1
he omy and use. Admirablsllowed are the
r, public Industrial school, It possession
On | admirably fitted besides for to- ,eoon,
ut | Probate court, and those most importah-
a indispensable uses to which the basement
III | such building is often devoted. tt
,o six grand rooms on the west side of the flo
b | above are of the greatest value to preser1
L. the history of this model empire and repu
| lic-the first New Haven colony. 1t stan'
l. first and highest in all the records of time
is a free and independent nation from its vel
IS beginning. The char tel, under which our Sta
! | grew and hourished till the year 1917 co
r. frmed these rights of the Connecticut col
70 MES to choose their own rulers and to ena
L | their own laws. New Haven colony too
at | aud held those rights from the first.
The approaches that is the laid out pat
'e | to the State House, do not come to it in
IS direct, easy or inviting way, but in kind
one-sided, indirect and, as it were, avoidir
&, | way. The stucco covering of the outsi'
m walls is defective, and in parts fallen Of
at The plaster ceiling of the porticoes has
II | come off from the front end and in fact fro
7 the other, the south end This entran
is the one by which the building is almo
h | exclusively approached and entered.
W should have been the front main entranc
9 ought to be A Of wood, hard pine,
t. if cheaper and as good, of corrugat'
I11a 4
n mediate attention. For in spite of its TO
bidding aspect and tumbling look many cit
J. | zens, children and strangers, daily are goir
in and out. Twenty and more have passt
r. since any repairs have been made outsid
# and its even now passable condition prov
II | that its architect and workmen built tt
! whole, and ornamented the outside tho
Il 1 oughly and good as their limited mea1
r. | would allow. The stucco, defective as it
, | has outlasted the marble basement side
q the marble steps with abutments and paw
| ment of the perticoes. When such il
! | different stone and work passed inspectic
= and obtained approval at first, would n'
= 1 better stone and work at very mode
! ate cost prove acceptable and suffcien
Twelve thousand dollars will put the built
| ing inside and out in as good condition
| ever. one to be proud of for its beautifl
| commanding situation, and far more for tt
. memory of its distinguished services and re-
| value. Ithiel Town, the distinguished arch
, | tect of the Center and Trinity churches an
+, | public buildings in other States, deserve
! ! | the honor and esteem of his townsmsn. \
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