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WESTERN HENNEPIN COUNTY PIONEERS ASSOCIATION Newsletter #92 April. 199-^Paye 1 The Oruno Town Hall, Its Builders and a Bit of Its History Not very many of Orono's Hisiormil Puhlic ItuiUirifis are left. I'hink ahotu a Hesuh the Orono Town Hall, there is the Hill Se/u>ol. the Siuhh.\ Bay School and the C ry.ual Ba\ Presbyterian Church. Marge Casch is working to preserve the old Orono Town Hall Ij you feel it she)uld he saved, let your voice Ih’ heard It's too late after it has been destrovcd Orono Township was formed in ISS9. 1 he Orono Town Hull was built in 1900. It was used until the close of 1992. Other buildings had to be obtained to house offices, road equipment, police personnel, etc. but the old Town Hall was still used for around S6 years. 4 I; ..w.' .1 ! ’^1 r The Orono Village Town Hall, built in 1906 Cecil Clyde Gideon The contractor, who built it, was Cecil Clyde Gideon. The mason was Monroe Nystrom. The material they used was clay tiles, 12"xl() "x6 ' wide with two square holes through the tile. They were used for the founJition with 2x4's for floor framing. The walls were made of the clay tile also, with stucco on the outside. When Cecil Gideon hired Roger M. Stubbs to haul the freight car load of square hollow red tile for the railroad siding at Crystal Bay. he warned Roger to be careful not to chip the comers, as they were to be used on the exterior of the building. Roger Stubbs bought specially- built, heavy-duty springs to put on the axle bolsters under the wagon box. Very few buildings left are made of this tile. The Stubbs Movers moved one at St. John’s Llniversity and knew of another building in Red Wing. Cecil Clyde Gideon was bom in a log cabin at Brackett’s Point on lx)ng Lake. Mimtesoia on September 9, 1879. His father was Charles Sumner Gideon, .son of Peter Gideon, the honiculiurist. His mother was Rachel Caroline Stubbs Gideon, bom of a Quaker family in Ohio. ((.om. page 4)