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By V\ Lester Trauch Intelligencer Staff Writermove when the courtrooms forOver lllt;*0old-looking, worn and weatheredIf Hiliborn Darlington Jr.. a member of an old Doylestown ed. family, had more time, “OldDoylestown ' would never changebut continue to live on in his scaled-to-realitv modelsthe new Courthouse are built af- Darlington estimates that he effect. Darlington worked overthe East Court Street front withbrick dust “It s a trade secret/*he said tn his mild-mannered Darlington has brick structure on the edge of thej way “and I don't think 1 11 giveter the Office Building is complet- spent over $100 to make his mode! of the Ross Law Ofiice, av1 ‘ [ .C, / . . W A flu : •/. .. ■Previously.made a model of the Black Bass‘Courthouse Park w hich datesHotel. Lumbervitle and his next back to 1830.Darlington, who is associated Pr°Ject *s an old grist mill in j The mode! is 52 inches long, with his father in the family's‘Upper Bucks county that has a 374 inches tall „ and 36 inchesflorist and greenhouse business,has just completed a model oUjjathe Ross Law Office that tookhim over 500 hours to work out to the exa^t detail. The original Ross Law Office will have to to make it a complete unit.water wheel ttiat still runs. But, wide. The model measures 444 riington is aware that a grist {inches from the tip of the large, mill needs a mill race dam on twin chimnev top to the pavea creek and many other effects ment or street lewit awav.W'Beginning last March. Darlington has worked on and off at the model which is as authentic as he can make it It UmiR him five weeks to do the front of the building with its heautifui doorway,fan-shaped over the-door window, j front steps and windows.•. 'v.- ' •■'•v • • 'V*. T. , vWindows MoveTo give the brick the really! So accurate, so authentic i*
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Doylestown Intelligencer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Dec 04, 1958
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