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Construction Progress
Ever Changing Collinsville
June 21, 2005
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Cinder block was being added at City Hall Tuesday (June 21) as the front facade of the 1913 building continues to be restored. The block will be coverd with brick later.
The beams to support the second floor in the back of City Hall are being placed this week. The flooring metal is expected to be in place for pouring concrete by next week.
Collinsville's City Fire Department is now back at "home" on Main St.
The first two steel upright beams were up at the Community Church construction site Tuesday. And the other steel was being moved close for placement.
Changes continue at the Middle School campus, including removal of the cinder block retaining wall (above) which is where buses have loaded and unloaded for manty years. The 1958 story (below) shows the wall when it was brand new and one of those trees was about 47 years smaller.
The former Farmers Co-Op building next to the tracks on Main Street is apparently on its way down as part of an arrangement with SK&O (the rail right-of-way) owner of the building. Mr. Hargrove hopes to receive clear title to the property in exchange for removing the hazard which has been mandated to be made safe by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
It has nothing to do with construction progress but is indicative of Collinsville change. The house in the back ground above belongs to the Community Church now. In 1916, in an earlier house, my mother (Betty Evans) was born on that same corner. Mr. Howell H. Wilson (Superintendent of Collinsville Schools for many years) later lived in the house shown above. -- Ted