THE OLD BRICK COURT HOUSE

One of the earliest brick buildings erected in Flint village at this time was the new court house. At a meeting of the supervisors in 1847 a movement was begun for a fire-proof building; no results were obtained until 1851, when the board appointed Julian Bishop, of Grand Blanc, D. N. Montague, of Vienna, and William Patterson, of Flint, as a building committee "to receive proposals, and cause to be erected a substantial fire-proof county building," for offices for the county clerk, treasurer,. Register of deeds and judge of probate. The building was to be erected on the course house square at an expense of not more then one thousand five hundred dollars. It was finished the same year by Enos and Reuben Goodrich at a cost of about nine hundred dollars.