Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-22


 Hams is the building contractor and the architects are William R. Walker & Son, all of Providence.
 Of Westerly Granite.
 The building is of large proportion and of attractive and artistic design. The exterior is to be of Westerly granite, quarried. dressed, cut and carved in Westerly under sub contract to the New England Granite works, The building will be a solid, imposing structure, representative of the skill and product of Westerly's leading in dustry. The interior furnishings will be in keeping with the beautiful ex- teriOr and when completed it will be one of the best equipped buildings In the state for the purposes indicated.
 Building S7x117 Feet.
 The basement will be devoted to the police department, water department, storage and heating plant. The build ing will be S7 feet fronting on Broad street and IT feet and inches on Union street. The entrance to the courthouse will be on Union street and to the town building on Broad street, though both sections are so arranged that any part can be reached by either entrance, for while the buildings are distinct they are not actually separat- ed
 The first floor, the one above the basement, will he devoted to the toWI clerk. the water department, judge o1 probate, treasurer and collector, gen. eral record room. the town council ana the Third district court. On the sec ond floor will be the town hall and the l superior court room.
 Building Specifications. The material of exterior construction | Is red Westerly granite. All ashler vii be in courses of s inches and 10 inchei | thick each forming a 4-inch bond a | each course The ashler will be rocl face, free from drill marks and pitched off to straight beds and builds. Tn | ashler in the face of the building, un | der the Broad street porch, will b. l 6-cut work, as will also the returns ! from sides of plaster of the porch bacl | to face of main building, the ashle | forming buttresses under columns ant ! pilasters at end of steps at Broat l street entrance and in the gables 1 There will be also 1-inCh 6-cut margil l lines al all external angles of TOcl l faced ashler below the water tables 1 All water tables, sOfFits and jambs 0 l doors and windows in the basemen | and the quOins at basement entTanC doors both on face and jambs, will b ! 6-cut work. There will be a 4-incl 6-cut margin line on door cap at tn l entrance to police headquarters i'll tn 1 basement.
 The water tables course, the corner | stone, all outside steps, buttresses 1 coplngs, platforms and thresholds, tn | pdnths under all porch columns an ! 4 h 1 of the two inner columns of the Broa street porch, the base course top of en ] trance porch, platform at first run O main entrance steps, the curbing a northwest corner of the lot and tn coping of all retaining walls and c cellar entrance will be 6-cut work. A 1 window caps, sillS and quOins, and tn Voussoirs over all circular top window wilt be s-cut work.
 The bases and shafts of columns an pilasters. and the architraves, friez and ceiling at the top of Broad stree porch, and the similar work on tn Union street porch will be 6-cut WOrl
 The six panels over the second stOr widows of the courthouse section wi be recessed four inches with 6-cut fac reveals to the small windows south C the Union street entrance to town ha
 
 same There will be a 4-inch 6-cu margin on face of upper course ( irock-faced ashler at top of same, an directly under the copper cornice en itreIy around the building. The end Ct gil ashler at corners of building aooNe water table will be of unifOr thickness of 10 inches and will be 6-cu l work and there will be a 4-inch Get margin on faces of all ashler at COT ners of building, The ashler in chlm ney will be rock face with 6-cut mar gin line and caDstone of one piece.
 Inscription on Frieze.
 , The inscription on the frieze eve the Broad street entrance-Tow Building-wil be incised, not raised, a will also the date on the large corner 1 stone-MCMXII. The pocket on tn under side of the stone, that will re ceive the box with contents, is eief inches by twelve inches and six inche deep.
 The joint commission on the tow building and courthouse is composa of HCn Willard B. Tanner, judge superior court, State Senator Louis V Arnold of Westerly and Representativ 4 bram L. Atwood of Providence, Ter resenting the state, and James ! lFendleton, C. Clarence Maxson, Thom as NcKe Kenzie, Everett E. Whipple an Martin H. Spellman, representing tt towr of Westerly.
 Charles H.. Wilcox died Friday eve ming in his eighty fifth year at th home of his son, John R. Wilcox, shef if for Washington county, at Kings ton Hill, after q brief sickness. H was born in ChArlestown, December 1927, and when a young man worl1e for several years in Westerly. Owe fifty years ago he went to South Kings ton, purchasing the Sherman farm nel Kingston Hill In 1871 he was al pointed deputy sheriff and jailer fC Washington county by Sheriff Weede Berry of Westerly, and at once too charge of the Kingston jail and rt mained in that position for eight year In 1S7S-I9 he was postmaster at tf Kingston office and about that tin