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CITY AND COUNTY BUILDINGS

Development of the county and city buildings.

NEWSPAPER DATE NEWSPAPER TOWNSHIP
TOWN EVENT
Apr. 12, 1855 Manitowoc Tribune Manitowoc An Act Authorizing the errection of County buildings in the County of Manitowoc. The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:Sect. 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Manitowoc is hereby authorized and required to cause to be errected within two years from the first day of April A.D. 1855 at the County seat of said County and on that certain piece and parcel of Land known as the "Court House site" and further known and described as Lots numbered one (1) two (2) ten (10) eleven (11) and twelve (12) in Block numbered two hundred and seventy three (273) lying and being in the first ward of the village of Manitowoc and at an expense of not exceeding the sum of ten thousand Dollars including whatever sums may have been heretofore paid or expended in labor and material a suitable and convenient County building, suitable for a Court House, Jail, and County offices. Provided that the said Board of Supervisors shall have power do adopt or reject the plan and specifications and submitted by Francis Goetzler and approved by the Board of Supervisors in A.D. 1853, and Provided further that the said Board of Supervisors shall have power to remove and reconstruct the foundation for said Court House laid by said Goetzler on said court House site if on a careful examination the majority of said Board shall be of the opinion that said foundation is imperfect and insufficient. Section 2. The said Board of Supervisors is hereby authorized to draw orders on the County Treasury from time to time as the work progresses, to be paid out of any monies in the Treasury accrued or accruing from a certain tax levied by authority of the Board of Supervisors in A.D. 1853 for the purpose of 'Erecting County Buildings' and the said Treasurer is hereby authorzized to pay said orders out of said fund and none other. This act shall take effect from and after the tenth day of April A.D. 1855. C.C. Sholes, Speaker of the Assemby. Eleazer Wakely, President of the Sentate pro.tem. Approved March 29, 1855. W.A. Barstow.

NEWSPAPER DATE NEWSPAPER TOWNSHIP
TOWN EVENT
Mar. 04, 1915 Manitowoc Daily Herald Manitowoc The first funeral services at the new chapel at Evergreen cemetery were held yesterday when the body of the late Joseph Marshek was laid to rest, following the services. Rev. Axtell officiated the services. The chapel was recently erected by the city at a cost of $2,000. Manitowoc Daily Herald, Thursday, March 04, 1915, Page 4

NEWSPAPER DATE NEWSPAPER TOWNSHIP
TOWN EVENT
Nov. 22, 1920 Manitowoc Herald News TOWNSHIP
TOWN City Hall Back To Its Old Site After 60 Years"-The child returneth to its mother." This old saying was again verified when one of the old safes of the city clerk's office was moved to the new city hall on Friday. The old safe was purchased for the use of the village treasurer in the early sixties when the village office and meeting place of the trustees were in the vacated store room of the Oscar Koch building which occupied the site of the present new city hall, and Carl Hottelman was the village treasurer. It was here that the meeting of the village trustees was abruptly broken up one night and the board sought safety in flight through the rear windows when the Southside fire department appeared en masse to protest against the order of the board to disband. The village record reveals that in consequence the regular meetings of the board were dicontinued for several months owing to "no quorum being present, etc." This incident occurred just before the outbreak of the civil war when political partisanship ran rampant. The village board had a Republican majority and charged the then volunteer fire department with furthering Democratic propaganda.The old Koch building now stands at the corner of Tenth and Green streets, having been moved there to make room for the enlargement of the Victoria hotel, which has been purchased for city hall purposes.

NEWSPAPER DATE	NEWSPAPER	TOWNSHIP TOWN	EVENT
Apr. 12, 1855	Manitowoc Tribune	Manitowoc	An Act Authorizing the errection of County buildings in the County of Manitowoc. The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:Sect. 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Manitowoc is hereby authorized and required to cause to be errected within two years from the first day of April A.D. 1855 at the County seat of said County and on that certain piece and parcel of Land known as the "Court House site" and further known and described as Lots numbered one (1) two (2) ten (10) eleven (11) and twelve (12) in Block numbered two hundred and seventy three (273) lying and being in the first ward of the village of Manitowoc and at an expense of not exceeding the sum of ten thousand Dollars including whatever sums may have been heretofore paid or expended in labor and material a suitable and convenient County building, suitable for a Court House, Jail, and County offices. Provided that the said Board of Supervisors shall have power do adopt or reject the plan and specifications and submitted by Francis Goetzler and approved by the Board of Supervisors in A.D. 1853, and Provided further that the said Board of Supervisors shall have power to remove and reconstruct the foundation for said Court House laid by said Goetzler on said court House site if on a careful examination the majority of said Board shall be of the opinion that said foundation is imperfect and insufficient. Section 2. The said Board of Supervisors is hereby authorized to draw orders on the County Treasury from time to time as the work progresses, to be paid out of any monies in the Treasury accrued or accruing from a certain tax levied by authority of the Board of Supervisors in A.D. 1853 for the purpose of 'Erecting County Buildings' and the said Treasurer is hereby authorzized to pay said orders out of said fund and none other. This act shall take effect from and after the tenth day of April A.D. 1855. C.C. Sholes, Speaker of the Assemby. Eleazer Wakely, President of the Sentate pro.tem. Approved March 29, 1855. W.A. Barstow.

NEWSPAPER DATE	NEWSPAPER	TOWNSHIP TOWN	EVENT
Mar. 04, 1915	Manitowoc Daily Herald	Manitowoc	The first funeral services at the new chapel at Evergreen cemetery were held yesterday when the body of the late Joseph Marshek was laid to rest, following the services. Rev. Axtell officiated the services. The chapel was recently erected by the city at a cost of $2,000. Manitowoc Daily Herald, Thursday, March 04, 1915, Page 4

NEWSPAPER DATE	NEWSPAPER	TOWNSHIP TOWN	EVENT
Nov. 22, 1920	Manitowoc Herald News	TOWNSHIP TOWN	City Hall Back To Its Old Site After 60 Years"-The child returneth to its mother." This old saying was again verified when one of the old safes of the city clerk's office was moved to the new city hall on Friday. The old safe was purchased for the use of the village treasurer in the early sixties when the village office and meeting place of the trustees were in the vacated store room of the Oscar Koch building which occupied the site of the present new city hall, and Carl Hottelman was the village treasurer. It was here that the meeting of the village trustees was abruptly broken up one night and the board sought safety in flight through the rear windows when the Southside fire department appeared en masse to protest against the order of the board to disband. The village record reveals that in consequence the regular meetings of the board were dicontinued for several months owing to "no quorum being present, etc." This incident occurred just before the outbreak of the civil war when political partisanship ran rampant. The village board had a Republican majority and charged the then volunteer fire department with furthering Democratic propaganda.The old Koch building now stands at the corner of Tenth and Green streets, having been moved there to make room for the enlargement of the Victoria hotel, which has been purchased for city hall purposes.