Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-20
Report of Building Commute.

Report of Building Commute.
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors:
We the building committee to whom was
intruSted the planning and construction OF
the new courthouse as per resolution adopt
ed at the last session Of the County Board
respectively report:
The said committee met at Lancaster,
December 18th, 1901, at which meeting there
were present all the members of said COM
mittee John M. Gardner was chosen chair
man and O. w. Fessel, secretary OF the COM
mittee 1t was then determined to offer the
old courthouse building to the highest and
best bidder for cash and to advertise for
Platteville Witness, Lancaster Teller and
the Fenninlore Times for two weeks.
The following is copy of said advertise
ment
NOTICE OF SALE
Of Grant County Court House Building.
Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of
and pursuant to the power and authority
given to the undersigned committee, by the
Board of Supervisors of Grant County, Wis
ConSin at it's annual November session, 1901,
we will receive sealed bids up to December
26th, 1901. at the hour of one o'clock in the
afternoon of said dav, for the sale of the
present Grant County Court House
1.-The Bids to be for the building exclusive
of the furniture and fixtures therein, and
shall be conditioned that the. building shall
be removed and ground free of everything.
ready Tor the construction OF the new Du1lQ-
ing, on or before the first day of March,
1902 All bids to be sent to the Court House
Building Committee at Lancaster, Wlscon-
sin" The person or persons whose bld
may he accepted shall give good and suf-
ficient bond for the faithful performance
of his contract The committee reserves
from the building everything in the way OF
tached, in offices and vaults. including cleo
trio light fixtures, courtroom seats. and the
bell. The building will be sold to the high
OF bidder cash commit
tee also reserves the right to reject any and
all bids,
Dated December 4th 1901
John M Gardner Chmn
0. w. FeSSel Secretary,
Building Committee"
The committee met again December 5th
and determined to advertise for COM
petitive plans and specifications for
a new courthouse. following is a copy of
said advertisements
NOTICE TO ARCHITECTS.
"The County of Grant proposes to erect a
Courthouse building in the City of LanCas-
ter, Wisconsin, at a cost of not exceeding
$8O0O0.0O complete including heating and
plumbing and including court room fixtures,
together with costs of plans and speCifca-
tions of the architect and superintendent OF
building.
save those accepted. will be returned to the
owners and no compensation allowed for
same.
"The building is to be located on or near
the center of the block known as the Court
House block" in the city of Lancaster, Wis
COnSin
On the south side by Cherry street, on the
east by Madison street, on the north by
Maple street. and on the west by Jefferson
street he main FROM entrances to be on
the north and east.
THE dimensions of the site are 300 feet
running north and south, and 260 feet run
ming east and west.
'All plans, rough schemes and drawings
must be delivered to the building commit
tee at the law Office of Walter J. Brennan,
in said city OF Lancaster not later than one
O'Clock D. M, December 26th. 1901.
Dated Lancaster Wis, Dec. h, 1901
JOHN nj. GARDNER, CHMN.
o. w. FEssEL, SECRETARY,
Building Committee
Copies of these notices were printed and
mailed to architects and on December Goth
the committee met and was in session the
26th, 9th, and 28th, and there were submit
ted plans by eight architects. After full
consideration of the various plans submit
ted Messrs. H. G. Koch & Co., of Milwaukee.
wisconsin, were chosen as architects of the
building. Bids for the old court house were
also received and all bids rejected. And a
committee was appointed to obtain figures
for WreCRing courthouse.
January 7, 1902 full committee met and
the architects presented corrected plans
which were adopted,
January 8th the committee appointed to
attend to the wrecking of the old court
house reported specifications upon which
they had asked for bids, which were adopt
ed. They also reported that they had re-
ceived the follow ng bids for doing said
work: Messrs. Gillen Mccormick bid of
So 10000; L. H. Wetter $59950; Drinkwater &
Holmes $500: Edgar Ray $4,000, All of
said bids were rejected Committee then
contracted with Edgar Ray for $500. 90 to
ss,oooooocopy 70 Of specifcationsss contract and
bond attached hereto. Before wrecking
was done Messrs. Brennan, Meyer and Coun-
ty Clerk GriffiS, inventoried County Proper
ty in court room, which was taken to said
City Hail. and is as follows: twelve cane
bottom jury chairs, seven cane bottom arm
chairs, five wooden office chairs, three COM
mon chairs, one judges chair. one witness
chair. twelve cuspidors, two large and two
small tables, two waste baskets, one stand,
clock, iron railing and posts, one set session
laws, one set Wisconsin Supreme Court Re-
ports, two Volumes Shepard's Digest. four
volumes Simmins Digest, two volumes
Annotated Wisconsin Statutes, two sets
wisconsin, 1886 Statutes and nine ink stands.
The following property inventoried by
the sheriff was taken to City MdrShalS Of
flee in City Hall: one seven foot table, one
roll top desk. one iron safe, one swing chair,
two oak chairs high back, two maple Office
chairs, one common chair, one book case,
one County Atlas 1895 and twenty-four vol
umes Session Laws and Statutes.
Other county officials were requested to
care for and remove to temporary court
house all county property belonging to the
several offices and make and preserve an
inventory of the same.
We removed rOm court house and sold at
private and public sale the following ar
ticles, the county clerk receiving the mon
ey:
Twelve Court room seats "a $1-....... $12 90
Nineteen storm windows 0D $1..-----.-.-.... 10 90
Two court room stoves "a $14-----.---...... % 90
One round oak StoYe.............. ........... %
Two old stoves .......... .........-.-....-- 90
Old carpet --... 90
At public sale we sold various articles
from which we realized. ..-.......... 49,. Il 90
Making a total receipt of - 1914 IS
We have stored in w. j. Brennan's Office
ala clnni. oil ntriO licrht