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Friday, February 22, 2008
Ind. Courts - "Restoring the Allen County Courthouse to its original magnificence"
From today's Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, a story that begins:
Restoring the Allen County Courthouse to its original magnificence was an eight-year effort, but the task of restoring its original accouterments continues. Preservation officials are sounding a call to anyone who might have furniture or other items that once graced the proud building.Two significant items are back in place: a counsel table returned to the Superior Court I courtroom and a desk now used by Circuit Court Judge Thomas Felts. Both were returned after years in the care of area families with special connections to the 105-year-old building.
Attorney Tom Gallmeyer was among those offering contributions. The desk he used in his private practice was handed down from his grandfather, Clarence R. McNabb, who had first used it when he was Allen Circuit Court judge in the 1930s. When Gallmeyer learned that the Courthouse Preservation Trust board was seeking items original to the building as part of the renovation project, he donated the desk, which originally belonged to Circuit Court Judge Sol A. Wood, for whom the county’s juvenile confinement center was named.
“It’s a massive piece,” Gallmeyer said. “When it was moved, it had to be moved on top of the elevators because it wouldn’t fit through doors.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 22, 2008 12:19 PM
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