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| Keywords: architecture building drawing outdoor "Greenwood, B.C. Court House. Cole & Frith." Post Card. Greenwood City Hall, 202 S. Government Street, Greenwood, BC. Built 1902-03; extant as the Greenwood City Hall. Architect: George Dillon Curtis. "Greenwood City Hall, built in 1902-3 as the provincial government building and courthouse. It was designed by George Dillon Curtis, an Irish-born architect who established a practice in Nelson in 1897 and designed public buildings there and in Rossland, Fernie, and Greenwood. (The well-known courthouse in Rossland was in fact designed by Curtis' future partner, John James Honeyman.) [source: Honeyman and Curtis, by Paul Mackenzie Bennett, in "Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, ed. Donald Luxton, to be published in 2003] The building originally housed the gold commissioner's office, the chief constable and the mining recorder, as well as the functions of the county and supreme courts. There are three jail cells in the basement, one of which was part of the original design. The City of Greenwood bought it to use as its city hall in 1953, toward the end of the 14-year tenure of Mayor W.E. McArthur, Sr." [Source: Greenwood Heritage Walk brochure published by the Greenwood Heritage Society, 2001] From: www.michaelkluckner.com/bciw3greenwood.html "Greenwood, B.C. Court House. Cole & Frith." Post Card. Greenwood City Hall, 202 S. Government Street, Greenwood, BC. Built 1902-03; extant as the Greenwood City Hall. Architect: George Dillon Curtis. "Greenwood City Hall, built in 1902-3 as the provincial government building and courthouse. It was designed by George Dillon Curtis, an Irish-born architect who established a practice in Nelson in 1897 and designed public buildings there and in Rossland, Fernie, and Greenwood. (The well-known courthouse in Rossland was in fact designed by Curtis' future partner, John James Honeyman.) [source: Honeyman and Curtis, by Paul Mackenzie Bennett, in "Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, ed. Donald Luxton, to be published in 2003] The building originally housed the gold commissioner's office, the chief constable and the mining recorder, as well as the functions of the county and supreme courts. There are three jail cells in the basement, one of which was part of the original design. The City of Greenwood bought it to use as its city hall in 1953, toward the end of the 14-year tenure of Mayor W.E. McArthur, Sr." [Source: Greenwood Heritage Walk brochure published by the Greenwood Heritage Society, 2001] From: www.michaelkluckner.com/bciw3greenwood.html | ||||
