[Press Release] : Historic city buildings to be rededicated Friday

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Contact: Tony St. Romaine, Assistant City Manager 
(573) 874-7214

Historic city buildings to be rededicated Friday

COLUMBIA, MO (November 29, 2006) -- Two historic city government buildings will be rededicated during a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, Dec. 1, at 5:30 p.m. The ceremony will take place in a space between the two buildings in the 600 block of East Broadway in downtown Columbia. Both buildings house city government services, and the city of Columbia invites the public to attend.

The event will include live music, brief remarks, a ribbon-cutting, guided tours of both buildings and refreshments.

The Gentry Building was a post office when it was built in 1906. Later it was a library, and there are people who remember passing books, hand-to-hand, all the way down to Garth when Daniel Boone Regional Library opened there in the 1960’s. The building now is home to the Office of Cultural Affairs, Parks and Recreation Department Administration and the Office of Volunteer Services.

The Howard Municipal Building opened in 1932 and was Columbia’s City Hall until the 1970’s, when the city’s main administrative offices moved to the Daniel Boone Building, which became City Hall. Fire Administration, the Health Department, Municipal Court and the City Prosecutor’s Office remained following administration’s relocation to the Daniel Boone Building. The Howard Municipal Building currently is home to Employee Health, Human Resources, Municipal Court, the Parking Utility and the City Prosecutor’s Office.

During the opening ceremony, the Honorable Gene Hamilton, presiding judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit, will formally dedicate the courtroom and rename it in honor of George F. Nickolaus, who from 1959 until his death in 2003, served as Columbia’s city attorney, city counselor, acting city manager, mayor and associate municipal judge.

The rededication coincides with the holiday period and activities planned in downtown Columbia that evening. Downtown merchants will sponsor ‘Living Windows” that night, and it would be great for families to start with the open house, catch the window displays that start at 6 p.m. and then catch dinner or some of the performances and events in the area.

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