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COUNTY COURT HOUSE AND TAX REFORM SUGGESTION
ARCHIVES "NATIONAL SERVICE* RECORDS AND
When the county voted the bonds for a new court house, I decided to
look at some of the new public buildings around the country.
Fred Canfil, who was manager of the county's public buildings, and
I boarded my personally-owned automobile and started on a tour of the
cities with new municipal buildings.
We went to Shreveport Louisiana, and inspected the new Parish
Court House. We talked to the architect, Edward F. Neild, and obtained
some good ideas.
Then we headed for Houston, Texas, a city which was just beginning
to expand. We looked at several of their new buildings and consulted an
architect there whose name I have forgotten. There was nothing in Hou-
ston that appealed to us.
We proceeded to Denver where the city and county had recently com-
pleted a beautiful building, so arranged as to cause the people who had
to use it the most inconvenience.
Our next stop was Milwaukee, where a new county building had been
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