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heard concerns about the building’s chimneys. It is not the same as The Meadows ... it is a different animal. . . a spade is not always a spade.”
Mr. McCarthy’s reference to The Meadows concerned the ARB’s deliberations in April, when architect Julian Kulski’s plan to cover the twin chimneys on the south side of the home with an addition was opposed by the board. Both Mr. Haffler and Mr. Wells testified that the chimneys were the dominant architectural feature of that building, and to alter and perhaps disturb them would compromise the architectural integrity and the significant historical aspects of the structure.
Mr. McCarthy reviewed the plans for the building's exterior page by page with the three board members, describing what the architect intended to accomplish with the design.
Two chimneys will be part of the addition, mimicking the two which are already in place on the west side of the existing building. Those two will be left where they are. The two new ones will be functional; one serving as a flue for the exhaust fan in the kitchen, the other to a working fireplace in one of the offices.
On the Gay St. side of the addition, Mr. McCarthy said, a belowgrade entrance is planned to the basement drunk tank and cell block.
ARB member Evelyn Willis asked if the concrete steps could be faced with brick.
Mr. McCarthy told the board that the white clapboard meathouse on the lawn behind the jail can stay where it is, but that the old summer kitchen will have to be moved. “I have my doubts that it can be
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