West Virginia Commission Considers Courthouse Elevator Replacement

Entrance to the Harrison County Courthouse in West Virginia; image courtesy of Society of Architectural Historians

After years of elevator issues in the Harrison County Courthouse in West Virginia, commissioners recently considered bids to replace them, reports WV News. The courthouse’s elevator issues have been an ongoing problem for the building, causing employees and public visitors to have to use the freight elevator at times and some staff members and their services to be moved to the first floor to ensure public accessibility. Chief Circuit Court Judge Christopher McCarthy wrote a letter to the commissioners about the elevator outages last September, and last May, the county received several emails from Otis urging the county to consider modernizing the elevators which were installed in 1975. On March 5, commissioners considered applying for a grant from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History to fund the replacement of the elevators. County officials estimate the cost of replacing both elevators range from about US$500,000 to US$1 million.

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