History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . The size of thebuilding was sixty-twoby forty-eight feet, andthirty-one feet to theeaves. Material, brick. The building had acellar six feet in depthunder the whole struc-ture, and a fine Ionicportico of six columnsadorned the front. Abell of two hundred andfifty pounds was hungin the tower soon afterits completion. The con-tract price was eightthousand three hundredand seventy-five dollars,and the building com-mittee was Messrs. Jona-than Dwight, Jr., Jo
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . The size of thebuilding was sixty-twoby forty-eight feet, andthirty-one feet to theeaves. Material, brick. The building had acellar six feet in depthunder the whole struc-ture, and a fine Ionicportico of six columnsadorned the front. Abell of two hundred andfifty pounds was hungin the tower soon afterits completion. The con-tract price was eightthousand three hundredand seventy-five dollars,and the building com-mittee was Messrs. Jona-than Dwight, Jr., JohnPhelps, and Dan. Bonte-cou, as previously stated. According to the con-tract, the payments forthe work were to be made in seven installments,—six of onethousand dollars each, and one of two thousand three hundredand seventy-five dollars, to be made when the building wascompleted. The new court-house was first occupied at the March termof the Common Pleas, in 1822, Hon. Solomon Strong presiding. In 1851 the building was enlarged by extending to the rear,and other improvements made, at a total expenditure offive thousand dollars.*. THE NEW COURT-HOUSE. The court-house of 1821 continued to answer the purposesfor which it was designed until about the year 1870, when thegreat increase of population and business rendered the erec-tion of a more roomy and substantial structure imperativelynecessary, and the authorities took the initiatory steps for theconsummation of tho desired end. In everything exceptingthe location (which might have been more satisfactory) theplans were well laid, and the completed structure will standfor generations, a monument to the liberal public spirit and good taste of the peopleof Hampden County,and of the officials whooutlined and superin-tended the work. The act authorizingthe construction of thenew building was passedMarch 3, 1871. Thefirst step necessary afterthe passage of the actwas to secure a propersite, and this was finallysettled by the purcha
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