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146 Dr) REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NEW! TOWN OFFICE BUILDING At the Town Meeting held March 28 , 1927 , it was Voted , " That this Committee be constituted a Building Committee and authorized and directed to procure plans , specifications and esti - mates for a new Town Office Building . " In pursuance to the foregoing vote your Committee has had pre - pared plans and estimates of cost of a Town Office Building substantially as illustrated and described herein . It has been developed from a number of suggestions and designs as submitted to us by Messrs . Kilham , Hopkins , and Greeley ( William Roger Greeley ) and Mr . Willard D . Brown , whom we have employed as Associate Architects and who are acting in a similar capacity in planning the Isaac Harris Cary Memorial Building . It is apparent to every citizen that there are great possibilities in the generous gift to the Town , which , through the acts of the Trustees , provides , in addition to a beautiful Memorial Building , a site for a TownOffice Building and room for another Municipal building when needed . While your Committee was appointed to develop plans of an office building , it has been impossible to give this subject any consideration without quickly realizing that the appearance of these public build- ings planed upon the land chosen for the Isaac Harris Cary Ivlemorial Building will be decidedly affected by whatever use is made of the adjoining land upon each side , now privately owned . Some study was therefore given to an office building placed near Vine Brook and at the building line ( 20 feet back of the street line ) and so designed as to be viewed as a part of the business development along Massachusetts Avenue . Your Committee is unanimous , however , in recommending that the proposed office building be placed as shown herein , forming part of an harmonious grouping of three buildings which when completed will form a beautiful municipal center . LOCATION As indicated in the sketch-plan , the proposed office building is placed about 62 feet from Massachusetts Avenue and about 80 feet northwest of the Memorial Building , allowing for a wide lawn between and with a path and steps to the parking space in rear at a lower level . Entrance to the building is the semicircular drive leading to the Memorial Building . There is a service drive between the building and Vine Brook which provides the entrance to the Police Statirn and the parking area . THE PROPOSED PUILDING The style of this building is the same as the Memorial Building . The red brick walls and white trimmings suggest the Colonial archi - tecture of the time of the Revolution , and the slate roof also belongs to the period , but the interior makes no pretense at being a copy of the 6ld . Well lighted corridors are on the south side of the building with a staircase at either end . The Town Offices all open off these cor- ridors , and are interconnecting . Ample vault space has been provided by giving each department its own fireproof vault and there is also a large storage vault in the basement . Every office is well lighted by outside windows , and heated from radiators connected with the boiler plant of the Memorial Building . All have generous provision for artificial light . Offices regularly visited by the public will have the necessary counters anu grilles , and additional conveniences for the public have been placed on each corridor . The entire lower floor and exterior walls are of fireproof con- struction , and , as in the Memorial Building , automatic sprinklers are placed throughout the building , this obtaining low insurance cost .