Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-07-13
SITE HAS BEEN
DECIDED To STATE
THE PURCHASE OF GROUNDS
roh IHE NEW STATE BUILD
ING COMPLETED.
TITLE ABSTRACT FURNISHED
Price Paid is $45, 45,000-size and situa-
tion of the BuiIdinu-Archi+ee+s n
Report Full Details and BIue-Prints
in Sixty Days.

Halelgn.-Mr. Ashley Horne, chair
man of the North Carolina State
Building Commission, and Mr.. B. R
Lacy, State Treasurer, turned over to
Mr. William B. Grimes, president of
the Grimes Realty Company, the
$4,000, purchase price of the lot
bought by the Commission, for the
State Administration building. The
commission approved and received
the deed for the lot, which deed had
oeen heretofore prepared by Mr..
Ernest Haywood, attorney for the
realty company, and deposited with
Mr.. Joseph G. Brown, who has filed
4 same at the court house for re-
cord. Acknowledgement Beckett has
furnished f' the Building Commission
with an abstract Of the title.
Chairman l1s-of 4hs.
buiiding Commission, said that the
new Administration building will be
81 feet wide and 100 feet long. There
VIII be grass plot 10 feet deep in
front OF the building, on Fayetteville
street, and another grass plot. also
" 1eet deep, at the rear, on Sails
oury street. There will be a 7-foot
alley to the south of the building
with a gate. The building will oc-
cupy, as is generally known, the en-
tlre north end of block just south
from the Capitol grounds. It will he
bounded by Fayetteville street on the
east, by Morgan street on the north.
py Salisbury street on the west. and
by an alley-way on the south.
1t was announced some time ago
tnat, while the architect had made
hls plans on the expectation that there
would be a five-story building, the
State Building Commission had de-
clded to have four floors. When this
was decided, after full discussion. it
was necessary to give the architect |
more time. In sixty days or not much
onger than that, the architect will
'eport to the Commission full details
md blue prints.
When these are reported, the Com
MISSION Will advertise thirty days for
he construction of the building.
o select Successor to II. C. Brown.
Inc question OF selecting success
or to Henry Clay Brown as CORPORA
ION commissioner is the overshadow-
ns topic here now. Governor Kitchin.
{ is thought will name the suc-
essor to Mr.. Brown speedily, as the
ommlssion is just now in the midst
I the arduous task of general as
essment of all the public service
orporatlons and corporations gen.
rally for taxation, this in addition
the work of the commission as 2
tate tax commission in supervising {
Ak assessments the state over
NO one seems to have any clear
lea OF just who will be in the race
'r the place or available for it. IT I
expected that former Speaker of |
le House A. w. Graham of Oxford I
Ill be in line. He was a formidable r
andldate against Commissioner Lee +
the last State Democratic con- t
entlon. But his brother-in-law is i
candidate against the Governor for G
nited States Senator. s
Some speak of Capt. T. WI Mason t
Northampton county as probably n
1 especially desirable and available b
an for the place, some close friends O
Governor Kitchin limiting in this q
rection. F.
Former Corporation Commissioner t
Z. Beddlngfield of this county is S
eng mentioned as an especially a
man to step into this L
orK at this time, if he can be per- o
laded to leave his farm for official D
'tles again. Mr.. Beddingfeld's d
'altn was poor at the time he re- f;
red from Office and was succeeded t;
3. +. Aycock, the predecessor of o
r. Brown. a. .,