Document - Historical information/data - Summary of Eagan's Historical 1914 Old Town Hall History -J
TOWN HALL -
For the first years of the township's existence, the annual
town meetings were usually held in the schoolhouse of d_,trict
14. The Town . Board of Supervisors met irregularly at the s ..hoof o�.
�n member's homes.
It was ' not until 1892 thFt th`. first Town Hall was built, 1t
was first used as the polling place for the presidential election
of that year. It was located on land owned by Michael Shields -:)n
the southeast side of the int.:rsection of Lone Oak and Pilot K%.,-1
Roads.
By 1914 it was e1ec _;:ed that a new Town Ha.a.l was neede,'.. 7
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the annual meeting a five -member committee was appointed to :z n'-z'�*'
a sites and $500 was desigrated to buy land and construct a
building. However, 'Che Town Board was not satiE--fied with the
committee's recommendaticn (where the recommends site was is not
revealed 4n ,.he records) ; it appears that a rivalry existed between
Wescot.: mnd Nicols. Meanwh.Lle, the original building was destroyed
by fire 4
At a spacial meeting on May 2, 1914, the Town Board decided to
plac,z ',-.he new Town Hall as close as possible to the exact center of
the township. A parcel of about one-third acre abutting Pilot Knob
I;ad in the northeast corner of Section 21 was purchased from
Michael Englert, Jr. A 26' x 40' frame structure was built by A.J.
Ward of Rosemount for $1,047. The new Wing was completed on
June 16, 1914, and served as the meeting !I- and polling place for
the township for the next several decades. It was heated by a pot-
bellied stove and had ten rows of seats made from unpainted 2 x 12
planks and two file cabinets.