The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-01-16
SELECT NO SITE
FOR court HOUSE
Committee Will Report OPP
tons on Site Without
Recommendation When
County Board Meets.
ALL OPTIONS RUN TO COUNTY
Five Sites Submitted and Cost Of site
Is Expected to be in the Neigh
borhood Of S8o,Oo0-Board
May Pick site This Week.

The special committee of the county
board under the leadership of Supervis-
or Tom Scott, which was appointed at
the November session Of the board to
suggest site for the proposed new
county court house and county session
will make its report to the board at
the opening Of the January session
tomorrow morning and it is possible
that the members Of the board will
take action for the purchase of site
for the new county center before the
end Of the present week.
The board will be unfettered by re-
Communications Of the committee as
the report Of the committee will sug-
gest no selection of site.
AS directed by the board options rum
ming to Kenosha county have been Sc
cured on five sites and the board will
have report showing the cost Of the
different sites under the options Sc
cured and the selection of site is
expected to be by ballot. 1t is pro-
bable that this will be delayed until
after the members Of the committee
have reported what they consider the
merits and the draw backs of the var
ious sites suggested. The five sites
will include: The present block oc-
cupied by the court house, the post Of
fee and the Halberstadt property; the
block Just north of it now holding
the county jail, the Municipal lCourt,
the Administration building Of the
schools, the ware house of the Balm
wagon company and number of pri-
waite residences; the Kimball block on
Prairie Avenue; the English block on
Park street running from Wisconsin
street to Park and on Park to Com
gress street; the block on Market
street running West from Congress to
West street and through to Elizabeth
street.
Options are now in the hands of the
committee for all the property neces-
sary in case any one Of these sites are
selected and the best Judgment of the
committee is that the cost of the site,
with the possible exception of one sci
ection will be in the neighborhood Of
eighty thousand dollars. The commit
tee believes that a considerable sum
can be realized in salvage from any
of the sites suggested and that a. con-
siderable sum can be secured from the
sale of the recent county property if
some other site is taken. If the Mar
ket street property is to be disposed
of 1t is thought that the county can Sc
cure from the sale of it almost enough
to pay the cost of any site selected.
The completed options indicate that
most of the property owners have been
very fair in their dealings with the
committee. The members Of the com
mittee believe that the price now sug-
gested for the site is lower one than
would be possible at any time in the
future.
The committee will recommend the
immediate purchase Of one Of the sites
named in the report with view of
having the work on the new Sounty
center started some time during the
coming spring and summer. AS yet no
plans or specifications have been ask
ed for and no preliminary sketches
have been submitted to the committee
by any of the score of architects who
have offered their services to the coun-
ty The committee has told all of the
architects that before it asked for
sketches Il decided to have the de-
finite location of the building provided
for SO that all suggestions for the
building would fit the site.
It is not expected that any other
matters of Importance viii be taken
up at the January session of the
County Board. During the session the
annual audit of the books of the coun.
ty will be presented to the board.
Provision for starting the work on
the country center has been made by
an appropriation of 100000 which
was made at the November session and
TINS money will be available Just as
soon as the town and city tax collectors
settle with the county treasurer.