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Article: A Timely Way to Top Off a Century; Group Plans to Restore Cupola to Clock Tower for 100th Birthday of Courthouse
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- The Washington Post
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- August 13, 1992
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A group of local officials, business owners and preservationists
is working to restore the damaged Loudoun County Courthouse clock
tower in time for the building's 1994 centennial.
The Courthouse Clocktower Committee is looking to raise $10,000
to build and install a replica of the small copper-roofed cupola
that was blown off the Leesburg clock tower during a storm in 1950.
"It establishes proportion," said Ralph LaRock, a committee
member and Leesburg architect who made drawings of the cupola and
clock tower from old photographs. "Without it, the tower looks
squatty."
The campaign was launched 18 months ago at the direction of the
Board of Supervisors and Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. ...