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Harry Coultrap

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Preservationists Call for Coultrap Memorial

There's a new proposal for the Coultrap building—but it's not to fight its demolition.

In late January, Colin and Glorianne Campbell addressed the Geneva School Board with a passionate plea to save the historic Coultrap building. But in the wake of a School District resolution to demolish the 90-year-old former high school building, the Campbells and other Geneva historic preservationists turn their attention from ways to stop the wrecking ball to preserving Coultrap's relics and memorializing both the building and its namesake. Speaking again before the board—this time at Williamsburg Elementary School, where board meetings were moved after the vote for Coultrap's demolition—Colin Campbell asked board members to establish a committee to develop a list of items that should be salvaged from the Coultrap facility before …

Dale Seidel

12:22 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013

I worked from 1963 to 1978 in the building every school day. I cannot think of anything I'd save from the building.   more ›

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