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Historic City Hall September 1912.
That’s when Bell was tasked with managing to a weeping tile to drain the water away from the
the building’s rehabilitation. However, the most building, into the stormwater system and out onto
important measures Bell took to protect the building the main street.
for future generations remained mostly hidden from
view. “That did not exist before,” Bell says. “The water
used to just run off the roof, into the gutters and
REHABILITATION OF HISTORIC overflow into the building. Some parts of the roof
CITY HALL BEGINS had no gutters, which was one of the major causes
of deterioration of the original sandstone.”
The project team began Historic City Hall’s
rehabilitation by installing a rain-water management Another of the first steps was to build scaffolding
system to protect the sandstone and the building and a heavy-duty protective enclosure that housed
for generations to come. Bell and the team then the building. This allowed the crew to work year-
connected the rain-water management system round regardless of weather conditions which
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