Brevard County Clerk of the Circuit Court & Records Building

Brevard County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Records Building. This building was constructed to house the offices of the Clerk of the circuit Court, when the nearby wood framed courthouse was thought to be unsafe for storing Brevard County Records. The contract was awarded to L.R. Decker and Co., and was completed in June 1903, with the costs of the main building being $2,285. The one-story brick building (with a tin roof) has 30 ft. frontage on Palm St. and is 40 ft. deep. The front room was the office A.A. Steward, Clerk of the Circuit Court, and was furnished with tables and desks. In back of his office was the 11 x 17 ft. recording room, typewriter office, etc., with 12 ft. ceiling, the same as the front room. Located in the northeast corner of the building was a 15 x 15ft. fire proof steel vault room with a 10 ft. ceiling. There was difficulty in raising the steel roof of the vault owing to the fact that there was no room to place a derrick inside because of the brick roof that was already on the building. Between the steel walls of the vault there are six arches with three rows of brick and nine inches of cement above the arches, making it absolutely fireproof. The contract for the vault was awarded to Diebold Safe and Lock Company with the cost of approximately $1,800. The building was later used as the offices of the Supervisor of Elections, headquarters for the Brevard Health Department, and a meeting place for the Titusville Town Council. In 1957 the east building with Pine Street frontage was added by building owners Abstract and Title Corp. of Florida and was reconstructed in 1976 to be used in conjunction with their building next door.