Courthouse Ground Breaking Update
Well, they went and did it. They actually started the courthouse in Fall River, directly across the street from the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast. Festivities (?) began yesterday morning and tents were set up for the event.
Here are some photographs of the area, taken last evening by Michael Brimbau. Not much to look at yet, but this is where it starts.
(now remember, this is Fall River, and they haven’t yet planned out where to put the parking! Not kidding!)
Ground broken for Fall River courthouse
October 23, 2007 6:00 AMFALL RIVER — A groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday for a new Fall River Trial Court at 186 S. Main St. with leaders from state and local government participating in the ceremony.
The new facility will house the Fall River District Court and Bristol County Superior Court criminal sessions. The five-story building with 150,000 square feet will contain nine courtrooms filled with natural light, a law library, administrative offices, jury rooms and an office for the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office. It will feature modern security and technology systems and will be fully handicapped-accessible.
Completion is expected in fall 2009.
October 23, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Chalk this up as a true ironic twist of history! Justice draweth near the fateful site!
Really, it’s amazing that the house wasn’t torn down by La LIz herself, as a final “in your face” gesture to those in Fall River who fell out with her. If she’d really been on her toes, as Agnes De Mille would have her, she could have just used the blunt end of the ax to incapacitate A & A, then torched No. 92, with them in it.
“Father is burned!”
She would have been out a (probably $5,000, at then-prices) structure, but no doubt would have saved herself at least 25 Gs in legal fees. If only La Liz had been a pyro– perhaps whatever tendencies she had thereto began and ended with dress- and hatchet-handle-burning.
But, then, there wouldn’t be a house at all. It’s amazing that anyone lived there thereafter, instead of razing it and rebuilding, that the house didn’t come down one way or another
a long time ago. It would be nice if Second Street hadn’t changed at all, but at least Chez Borden remains, and pretty much as it was–
Anyway, better a courthouse than a bus station. Perhaps juries can be sequestered there, and employ the Ouija boards to seek spiritual guidance on guilty parties. Or, perhaps Lizzie would come through, the better to confound them.