TOWN HALL BUILDING

The article below refers to the Norman W. Husted Building, which presently houses the State Trooper's Office, at the corner of Oxford Road and Governor's Hill Road.

At the instance of the Board of Finance, the Town appointed a Committee of three, to prepare plans, and select a location for a Town Office Building, in 1933. Before that date, the Town Records were said to have been stored in a barn just across Governor's Hill Road from the present Town Hall, or at the residence of whatever Town Clerk was in office at the time.

The Committee consisted of Rev. Henry S. Douglas, Messrs. Thomas Schreiber, and Frederick R. Bice Jr. They recommended  that the new building should be located at the north end of the "Lower Green," adjoining the Episcopal Church, and approximately twenty feet from Little River. The Committee consulted with
Mr. Alton Clark, "a practical designer and architect" and decided that the building should be 26 feet by 32 feet, one story high, that it should be fireproof, with walls of fieldstone, and contain a vault, a room for the Town Clerk, to be used also for meetings of Town Committees, and a room for the library.

The Committee's recommendations were followed and $2500.00 was appropriated. The Building was erected in 1933, using in general, unemployed Town labor. The Town Hall was dedicated the same year.

From History of Oxford, Connecticut, Litchfield and Hoyt, 1960 (Available for sale by the Oxford Historical Society, Inc., at the Oxford Town Clerk's Office.)