The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-24
BrattleborO Contractor to
Start Work There
Next Week
VAUGHAN & BURNETT
TO FURNISH CLOCK
Town Hall Building, Gift of Mrs. Kate
G. Dutton, to Cost Over $4,000
Town Provides Site-Exterior to Be
White Cement Stucco.

Contracts will be signed in a day or
two whereby Contractor William Cush-
man of Brattleboro will erect town
hall in the town of Townshend, which
will be gift from Mrs. Kate c. Dut-
ton of Gainesville, Fla, and whereby
Vaughan & Burnett of Brattleboro,
| jewellers, viii provide clock and bell
| for the tower of the new building. The
awards have been made verbally by the
| building committee, and the work will
be started at once. This magnificent
| gift by Mrs. Dutton will cost slightly
| in excess of 10000 and will not only
| be a beautiful memorial from a Town
| shend native in memory of her hus-
band, the late Col. Henry F. Dutton,
| who at one time was an instructor in
Leland and Gray seminary, but also
/ handsome addition to the attractiveness
| of the village.
| A meeting of the building committee
| and Contractor Cushman was held in
| Townshend yesterday, when the whole
| situation was gone over and it as de-
| cided to award the contract for the
| building to Mr.. Cushman. He will be-
| gin work next week with number of
men and will have the building COM
pleted next spring.
The building will be 45 feet wide
and IS feet long, including a broad
piazza with four pillars supporting the
roof projection. 1t will be two stories
high, with piazza also at the second
story. The exterior will be of white
cement stucco and the roof win be slat-
ed.
Plain oak or birch will be used for
the interior work, and it is probable
that plain oak viii be selected The
building viii rest on a concrete founda-
tion, without basement, and the site
includes part OF the site of the old
building, which was burned May 3,
1913, and a part of the Parker lot ad-
joining, where the Parker residence
was destroyed at the same time. The
Parker lot was acquired by the town
by special town meeting last August,
and the new building will be located
in about the center of the two lots,
which will place it farther away from
other buildings and lessen the danger
from future fires. The location is on
the east side of the main street, south
of the site of the former Townshend
Inn
The clock viii have three fve-foot
glass dials 1t will be an eight-day
clock of the well-known Seth Thoma:
make, striking a 500-pound Meneely
bell. Mrs. Dutton gave the clock ant
bell on the old town hall.
On the north front corner of the first
floor the town clerk s Office will be 10
Gated. On the opposite corner, south o.
the hallway, will be coat and cloal
rooms. Back of the clerk IS office will b,
be furnace and coal room. The hall
way will open into banquet hall 4.
feet by 20 feet, and back of that, in th
rear end of the building, will be
modern kitchen, concrete and briel
vault for keeping records, another fur
mace and toilet facilities The build
ing will be so constructed that no sup
porting posts will be required in tn
dining hall.
The second floor will contain an as
sembly hall, with stage and balcony
+ Without the stage the hall will be 4
feet square, with a balcony over tn
west end
NJ. R. Drew of Greenfield, Mass. j
the architect and the building commit
TOO consists of John H Ware, chairman
: Z. B. Batchelder, c. W. Cutler. III. /
: Howard and III. C. Stratton.