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Exeter’s city bureau building began a life operative for a county. In 1890, a Rockingham County Commissioners dynamic that a aged county record building, that stood on a site of a stream Exeter Historical Society on Front Street, was no longer vast adequate or complicated adequate to accommodate a needs. “If a objectors will subsequent revisit a aged county building,” a Exeter News-Letter urged, “they will find a structure damp and cellarless and a behind bedrooms upheld by outrageous piers that can't be private though acrobatics a whole structure down.” Rather than refurbish a aged building, a preference was done to build something new.
The preference to launch a building plan wasn’t taken lightly. Rockingham County erected 3 new county buildings in a early 1890s — a county annals building in Exeter and a new building and jail in Portsmouth. There was something of a building bang going on in Exeter during a time as well. The west finish of city was being grown for housing by Frank Swallow Herbert Dunn. The Exeter Brass Works was expanding and a Boot and Shoe Company also had skeleton to supplement an addition. On Park Street, a city was manufacture a new iron tyrannise overpass to concede trade to pierce even when a sight was entering or withdrawal town.
A lot for a new building was comparison on Front Street in a city block opposite from a Exeter Town Hall. The skeleton were published in a News-Letter in early May of 1891. “For a county offices in Exeter, skeleton submitted by Fox Gale, Boston architects have this week been perceived by a county commissioners.” Adding a bit of internal pride, a paper also remarkable that a skeleton “are a work of a youth partner, Mr. Edwards J. Gale, of Exeter.” The pattern combined a building with mixed vaults for fireproof storage of records. The opening corridor and interior spaces were of “hard timber comparison for good tone and grain.” The extraneous of a building was designed in a colonial style, “the element used in a new building will be rather new in this town, for nonetheless a extraneous is mostly of brick, it is of a rare kind and laid in an surprising way. All a trimmings, sills and lintels are to be of clean Indiana limestone and a bottom march Concord granite.” Construction began in a open of 1891 and by a following August, a Rockingham County Records and Probate offices were prepared to pierce in.
For a subsequent seventy years, a county bureau building in a downtown of Exeter was a unchanging interlude indicate for those wanting records. A tiny restoration of a building in 1927 lengthened a footprint a bit, though it remained radically a same building it had been when it was erected.
By 1964, a county had motionless it indispensable to connect all a services into one place. A new complex, on Hampton Road and named a Rockingham County Administration and Justice Building, was proposed. The annals and probate building on Front Street would no longer be needed. At a same time, a city of Exeter had prolonged indispensable a incomparable city office. The aged Town Hall was congested with a military department, a selectmen, city clerk, city manager, taxation gourmet and H2O dialect all radically on tip of one another. The judicious and many unsentimental resolution was to squeeze a county annals building to offer as a city offices.
But zero is ever elementary when it comes to New England politics. There were adequate people in city who felt that a building (appraised during $55,000) was too costly and a aged bureau space was portion good enough. Although a opinion in 1964 was 1,015-596, it unsuccessful to benefit a two-thirds infancy to pass. The allowance finally upheld a following year after a second event of city assembly was held. Although there was some opposition, a city manager, Theodore Nowak, urged acceptance of a essay and it upheld 699-13.
The squeeze of a county building was one of many services Ted Nowak achieved for a town. He served as city manager from 1963 to 1967 though had been partial of Exeter metropolitan supervision during a prior 20 years behaving as administrator of a city checklist of voters, bill committees, authority of a city cesspool investigate cabinet and several propagandize building committees. After his genocide in 1967, a city dedicated a assembly room of a city bureau to him. Today a several committees and city selectmen still accommodate in a Nowak Room. A board was dedicated in his respect in 1971, that reads: “Dedicated to Theodore A. Nowak, Town Manager, 1963-1967. In beholden approval for dedicated and unstinting use to a Town of Exeter, New Hampshire.”
Barbara Rimkunas is a curator of a Exeter Historical Society. Her mainstay appears each other Friday and she can be reached during info@exeterhistory.org.
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