Agenda - Council Work Session - 06/28/2016

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7. Description Condition Check one Check one —excellent —deteriorated X unaltered X original site X good ruins altered moved date fair unexposed Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance The Ramsey Town Hall, constructed in 1892 as a single-room school house, is located on St. Francis Boulevard, two miles north of Anoka. This simple, rectangular-shaped building is constructed of buff colored brick, presumably manufactured at the Kelsey Brickyard. The low pitched gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles. (It is assumed that wood shingles originally covered the roof.) The front facade of the building, which faces on St. Francis Boulevard, is com- posed of a centrally located doorway with flanking windows. The original door frame, which is partially block-in with plywood, was composed of a pair of doors. Decorative brick arches cap the door and windows. This decorative brickwork is repeated around a circular opening directly above the front entry. The north and south facades of the building :contain three wi,ndawls.;, each capped with decorative segmental brick arches. The west, or rear, facade of the building is composed of an exterior brick chimney flanked by two large windows. These windows, which have been filled-in with asphalt brick, are also capped with decorative segmental brick arches. A concrete belt course, presumably installed to prevent water damage to the building, is not original. The interior of the building contains an entry hall, one large classroom, two cloak rooms (one cloak room has been converted into a kitchen) , and a stairway to a partial basement (originally a small closet) . The classroom has a pressed metal ceiling and a number of original chalk boards, now painted yellow. The interior walls of the classroom have been covered with fiber board. A committee of the Anoka County Historical Society is currently conducting ex- tensive research in preparation for the restoration of the building. {