Norman County’s New $60,000 Court House.  A Public Building That Compares Very Favorably With Those of the Old-Settled Counties.  By an error in make-up in a recent issue of The Globe a picture of the Marshall county court house was described as the Norman county public building.  A cut of the Norman county court house is given herewith.  The building, which is one of the finest in Ada, the county seat, is of stone and brick.  The exterior is faced with pressed brick and trimmed with red sandstone.  It has slate roof, copper cornices and metal work.  The tower is covered with red slate.  The building is fire-proof.  The floors and partitions are constructed of expanded metal, steel beams and angles, with concrete for floor construction and solid plaster for partitions.  The vaults have walls of brick, with air spaces, and are absolutely fire-proof.  The stairs are of iron, with marble treads and ornamental cast rail.  The same kind of balustrade is carried around the second floor opening in rotunda of the tower.  All corridors and halls have high marble wainscoting and floors of tile.  The interior of the dome is artistic, with its marble columns with ornamented capitals and circular top arches, molded frieze and leaded glass skylight in the dome.  The court room has a beautiful ceiling, produced by molded cornices and beams forming panels.  The first floor contains the offices of the county auditor, county commissioners’ office adjoining, and county treasurer, register of deeds and judge of probate, with vaults for each office.  The second floor contains the court room, judge’s rooms, grand jury room, county attorney’s offices, witness room, superintendent of schools and sheriff’s offices.  The basement contains surveyor’s office, boiler and fuel room, cistern for soft water for use in the boiler, besides space unfinished, to be used as the future needs demand.  The building is heated by steam and lighted by electricity and thoroughly ventilated.  Its cost is about $55,000, exclusive of fixtures, which cost about $6,000.  Omeyer & Thorl, of St. Paul, are the architects.  (The Saint Paul Globe, Sunday, November 15, 1903, Volume XXVI, Number 319, Page 25)