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Sunday, September 04, 2011
Ind. Courts - "Just months after the Evansville Bar Association unveiled the restored superior courtroom inside the Old Courthouse in Downtown Evansville, it is at risk for water damage"
Some quotes from the story today in the Evansville Courier & Press, reported by Richard Gootee:
The potential problem was first discovered a couple months ago because there were already signs of leakage in another one of the restored spaces, the probate courtroom. That room, which can be rented for special events is on the opposite side of the facility, which originally opened in 1891.“When we got in the attic we discovered ... that it was these joints in the masonry where the water was going in,” said Mike Shoulders, the principle architect of the restoration project. “It wasn’t pouring into the probate room but what we concluded is it was getting the plaster wet and once it gets wet it can start to flake and detach.”
So far, the damage from the leaking water isn’t too costly, but the problem needs fixed before it causes more problems in that room, he said.
“It’s not damage that is causing major expense to the county yet, but if it’s not addressed in short order every time it rains we risk losing this plaster scroll work,” Shoulders said.
Coures said no water has gotten into the superior courtroom, which the bar association renamed after current Indiana supreme court Chief Justice Randall Shepard — an Evansville native — during a ceremony in April, which marked the group’s 100th anniversary. The bar association raised more than $300,000 for the project.
“We know there has been some water around the superior courtroom,” Coures said. “But it hasn’t gotten in the plaster yet so we are trying to stop that before it happens.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 4, 2011 07:28 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts