Delhi Township Hall

1974 Cedar Street, Holt, Michigan

Status: Burned and Demolished in 2022

Opened: Varies (connected in 1949)

Architect: Manson & Carver, Lansing

The large northernmost A-frame portion was the original fire barn dating to the 1920s. During the Great Depression in 1933-1934, workers from the Civil Works Administration (CWA), part of the New Deal alphabet soup public welfare programs under the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) took to work building a new Delhi Township Hall adjacent to the fire barn. The CWA was short-lived and primarily constructed buildings and bridges. When the Holt Library was founded in 1936, also part of FERA, it received space adjacent to the Fire Barn.

From 1949 to 1951, the buildings were connected and an addition placed on between and behind the facility. The 1949 work was designed by Lansing architectural firm Manson & Carver and construction was completed by W.H. Beasley and Son of Lansing. The addition included a meeting hall, auditorium, and kitchen, as well as a foyer, and hallways and corridors connecting the existing spaces.

The building received a brick addition to the south in 1968. Over the years it housed the fire department, police department, library, and township offices. It was occupied by Delhi Charter Township through 1996 when the present Township Hall at 2074 Aurelius Road was completed.

Upon the closure of the old Hall, the building became the headquarters for Girl Scouts of Michigan Capital Council and later different churches and worship organizations, lastly Mind, Body, and Soul Church. The building caught fire and burned in June 2022 and was subsequently demolished and the site cleared.