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

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Contact: Tony St. Romaine, Assistant City Manager - (573) 874-7721

Historic city buildings to be rededicated Tuesday

COLUMBIA, MO (May 7, 2007) - The rededications of two historic city
government buildings will be observed during a ribbon-cutting ceremony
Tuesday, May 8, at 5:30 p.m. The rededication ceremony previously
scheduled for Dec. 1 was canceled when Columbia received a 16-inch
snowfall. The rescheduled event 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, a vintage car show, brief remarks
and 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. Named after Ann Hawkins Gentry,
the second woman in the nation to serve as postmistress, the Gentry
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.

Special guests for the rededication include Elizabeth Gentry Sayad,
great great-granddaughter of Ann Hawkins Gentry, Ray Beck, city manager
emeritus, Honorable Robert Aulgur, municipal judge and Mrs. George
(Charlene) Nickolaus. During the opening ceremony, Judge Aulgur 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.

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