The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-11-17
Local Architect Declares
Building Costs Have
Dropped 1920.
COUNTY SHOULD BUILD
viii Offer Plans for Three
Kinds of JaiIs, Any One to
Be Built for 100000.

Joseph Lindl, Kenosha architect, has
been spending the restricted building
season making plans for a court house
for Kenosha county and he has an
nounced that when the county board,
which meets for it's fall session to-
morrow morning, is ready to consid-
or plans for a court house he will
lavo three different plans to offer for
the building. 1t is his assertion that
any 0ne of the plans can be carried
ouT by the county with an expenditure
OF 5000 900 and that the building erect
ed at this cost will be ample to take
care CT tbs demands of Kenosha coun-
ty 1or Period Of thirty years. The
piaEs have not been shown and the de-
tails Of them will net be roade public
until after they are submitted to the
county board along with plans to be
proposed by other architects from Ke-
nosha and other ciaies 1t is expected
that the question Of building a court
house will be one of the first big prob
lens to be taken up by the county
solons in the November session.
Building Costs Are Lower.
GAS result of my own investiga-
tions and as result of conservations
with big builders, | can say that build
ing costs have fallen forty per cent
from the peak prices which prevailed
when the county board formerly con-
sidered the court house proposition"
said Mr.. Lindl. "This is not simply a
guess but the figures are born out by
a most careful study Of work which
has been done recently and which is
now under contract. 1t is my opin-
ION that the time has come for Keno
sha county to build it's court house
and that construction during the next
Eear and half or two years will be
more economical than to wait for a
longer period. 1t is going to be pos
sible now to get the money for con-
struction at fair rate of interest
and there is an assurance that the
county can sell it's bonds right. The
building now would give employment
TO a large number of men including
both unskilled and skilled labor and
it would give an assurance Of employ
lent of these men for a year and a
half or two years. The building of a
court house in the near future would
lift a large burden of support for I'M
employed from the shoulders Of the
city and county. Many large building
projects which have been held up on
account Of the excessive cost of build
ing are now going forward. Regard
less as to who has the contract for the
work. l bellows that the county can
save and make money by acting at
once to get this big project started"
Three Kinds of JaiIs.
The plans which Mr.. Endl has pre-
pared differ only in the question of
the location of the jail. The main plan
provides for an oblong building with
provisions for all the offices and court
rooms demanded by the county and
with ample. provisions for rest rooms
and with sanitary provisions to meet
the most modern demands. The treat
ment Of the jail problem is the i'm
rortant question to bring the change
in the plans, Gone of my plans pro-
vdes for roof Jail, another for a
tower Jail and the third for the Jail
to be housed in a separate building
connected with the court house proper
with a tunnel" said Mr.. Lindl. 'I do
not believe that Kenosha county wants
either the roof or the tower jail. The
Investigations l have made show that
these plans are very unsatisfactory and
cry hard to carry out. The separate
all has lot of things in its favor
v suggestion is for three buildings
ie court house proper, the Jail and
special building to be used as q
heating plant for the three buildings
This plan can be carried out just as
cheaply as an attempt to house all of
them under one roof"
Make Chimney Ornamental.
"There has been objection to a CEN
trail heating plant separate from the
rest of the building on account of the
fact that some of the people think that
the chimney will be unsightly. 1t
need not be an unsightly chimney. If
the board wants it it can be made as
ornamental as the Washington monu-
ment."
Speaking of the size of the Jail Mr.
Lndl declared that he believed that a
Jail with thirty cells would be all that
could be demanded by Kenosha county
in thirty years He said that in this
he had considered grand jury activities
and the possibility of such activities
in the future. Down at Cincinnati
where the county has population OF
more than million people the new
jail contains but ninety-nine cells
said the architect, "and if this county
ran get along with this number of cells
1t is certain that thirty will be ample
for Kenosha county We do not want
to make the Jail too big and it is big
iQils that add largely to the cost of in.
stitutions such as we are planning
Expect Many Plans.
It is expected that the county board
will have before it large number Of
suggestions for the court house. Arch.
ltect Roger of Urbana, Illinois, has
several sketches and plans ready ia
tubmit, Architect c. e. Bell of Min
hsapolis has his sketches and speci.
fcations in Kenosha now and it is pref.
iv certain that there will be a half a
9ozen other architects who will want
% have look in on the construction
lf the building. The rivalry for the