Valparaiso Magazine Fall 2021

members of Chaplain Brown Post started a subscription list to
secure money with which to erect a memorial hall in Valparaiso.
The county commissioners had purchased the lot fronting on
Mechanic Street (now Indiana Avenue), immediately next to
the county jail, in November, 1881, for $1,750. The board now
offered it to the Grand Army post for a site for the hall. An
association was organized
and a charter
obtained from
the state giving
it authority to
raise money and
build a hall. Of
this association,
E. M. Burns was
president; John W.
Elam, secretary,
and Aaron Parks,
treasurer. Several
thousand dollars
were subscribed
and the association employed an architect to make plans
for the building. When these plans were submitted to the
commissioners they decided in favor of a larger and more
pretentious building, and new plans were accordingly made in
conformity with their views on the subject. Upon the adoption
of the plans, the board of commissioners appropriated about
$2,000, which, added to the fund raised by the old soldiers,
was thought to be sufficient for the completion of the hall.
Some indebtedness was incurred, however, and in 1901 this
indebtedness was assumed by the
county, the commissioners issuing
bonds for its liquidation. The building
was then turned over to the county,
the Grand Army post reserving one
room on the ground floor for the use of
the Woman’s Relief Corps, a room on
the second floor for a post hall, and the
privilege of using the main hall once a
year for memorial services. By this means,
the old veterans of the great Civil War are
assured of a home for their meetings, and
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