Town Hall

## Minniapolis Town Hall

The Town Hall, photographed by Alfred Smith

### People Present

Margaret Wormwood, Will Wormwood, Bob Brickston, Leah Hatoff, Dustin Myers, Tommy Brickston, Ginny Brickston, Timothy Loy

### Businesses

2 (Center for Administration of Minniapolis, and Minniapolis Tax Office

### Floors

3

**The Town Hall**, otherwise known as CMAS (Center for Minniapolis Administrative Services), or 110 Brick Street, is the largest building in the city of Minniapolis. The building houses the main governing body of Minniapolis, including the Mayor of Minniapolis, Bob Brickston. His two children, Tommy and Ginny are also present. The building features three floors. The first features a tax office and an auditorium. The second floor features the mayor's office, and the third features a meeting space.

## History

When Minniapolis was first founded, the founder, Bob Brickston wanted to find a way to incorporate the town. After looking into hit, he found that having a town hall is one of the first steps. In 1890, Brickston began drawing up plans to build a large, three-story town hall that would move the governing body of the town into it and house all of them. Construction began on January 3, 1891.

### Completion

After several months of construction, the building was completed on April 4, 1891, and the governing body and offices of Minniapolis moved in. The town was incorporated in November of 1891.

### 1905 Fire

In 1905, an unknown member of the governing body tossed a still-burning cigarette into a corner. However, this caused the walls of the second floor to light on fire. Around 25% of the second floor was burned. No injuries were reported. The building was repaired a few months later.

### Modern Minniapolis History

The town hall soon became the sight of marriages, likely due to its double-function as a courthouse where people can get married. In 1921 the building closed for maintenance. In 1945, the building saw the sight of the largest wedding in Minniapolis History (large by Minniapolis standards), which saw Margaret Wormwood and Will Wormwood marry each other. The couple takes pictures in front of the town hall every day to mark the progression of their marriage.

## Floors and Description

### First Floor

Outside the first floor, there is a small section of sidewalk. On either end of the sidewalk are potted plants and a street-lamp. The first part of the building that can be reached is the façade. It is as tall as the entire ground floor, and features four large columns mounted on the stairs leading up to the building. These columns support the upper part of the façade, which has a large indentation in it with several decorations including columns, and the shield of Minniapolis. Beside the columns is a window set into the building.

The building can be entered by moving up the smooth tan stairs, and entering through a medium-sized green double-door which. Behind the door is a hallway, tiled in black and white, which enters into the building's auditorium. This hallway also has a doorway to either side of it, each leading into a different room. The door on the left opens into a sparely-furnished grey room, the only adornments of which are a tan bench, and a white column with a white minifigure head atop it. From this room, one can either look out through the leftmost of the exterior windows mentioned earlier, or look through a small arched window into the auditorium. This is the only room on the first floor that has access to the elevator, and the door to it is found on the far left.

The door to the right leads into a much more crowded room, the tax office, where secretary Dustin Myers works. It is furnished with a potted plant, a desk with a computer mounted on it, and a blue stool. Like the left room, from here you can look out on the street or the auditorium, although here there are two arched windows instead of one.

The auditorium can be accessed by going down the stairs that lead from the hall, and is a large, mostly empty room. At the end of the auditorium is a podium, which has steps leading up to it from either side. Attached to the podium's front is the same shield that decorates the front of the building. Around the podium, directly in front of the auditorium's walls on every side, is a long black double-tiered bench. Above the podium on the back wall are two lanterns, and next to these, situated periodically throughout the back wall, are three large windows. The back wall also sports a door that can be used to access the back of the building.

The building's back is fairly sparse. The green door from the auditorium opens onto a four-stud long backlot, with little to relieve the monotony, save for some ivy growing on the building's left side, and the auditorium's windows, one of which is higher and smaller than the others.

### Second Floor

The second floor consists of only two rooms, an exterior balcony, and the elevator shaft. It is mainly coloured dark orange. The largest room on the floor is the Waiting Room, and is furnished with a carpet, a desk with a potted plant atop it, and a chair. The room has two windows, both on the right side, next to the balcony door. The room can only be accessed from the Mayor's Office, the balcony, and the elevator, into which the room features a door. At the back side of the room, between the elevator shaft and the mayor's room, is a railing, which allows anyone in the room to overlook the auditorium one floor below. At the far side of the floor, beyond the gap which allows auditorium viewing and at the building's back wall, are three small windows. Each of the windows features a small tan ledge jutting out from it on the outside.

The second of the room's three doors is transparent, and leads out onto the balcony. The balcony juts out from the rest of the building, and is small, only able to fit about two people. It can only be seen from out here that all he windows on this level have window-boxes with flowers attached to them.

The Mayor's Office, or the office of Bob Brickston is a comfortable room that is furnished with a desk, a chair, a potted plant, a picture depicting a sailing ship mounted on the wall, and, on the desk, a lamp and a frog-shaped paperweight. Two large windows look out of the room.

### Third Floor

The third floor consists merely of a single large room, and the elevator shaft. The single room takes up over half the space on the floor, the rest of it being taken up by the elevator and the open space allowing viewing of the auditorium. The colouration of this room, like that of the one below it, is white floor, and dark orange walls, with only the lowest wall being grey. Since most of the floor is one room, the railing cutting off the room from the drop into the ground floor stretches uninterrupted from the elevator shaft to the right wall. On the front wall of the room, two to the left and two to the right, are four windows, each of which look out on the street below. In between the two sets of windows is one larger one and the only one to have a window-box. On the far left and far right sides of the room are two potted plants, one on each end. In the centre of the room is a large green-and-tan table, surrounded on the left and right are three chairs, with one larger chair at it's head. In the right corner of the room, next to the railing, is a globe of the Earth.

The roof is mostly grey, except for a tower of dark orange at it's front, into which a clock is mounted. On top of the orange part of the tower is a slanted black section, followed by four small white pillars, which support the tower's conical roof. Along the back of the roof is a skylight, through which one can look down into the building below, and, more specifically, down into the auditorium on the ground floor. Next to the skylight is a small hatch that can be used to access the elevator shaft, presumably to service it. At the very front of the roof is a single stone railing, onto which is mounted the number *1891*. The roof also includes a ladder which the janitor uses to clean the bell.