Culture and Recreation, Rockville Reports

Back In the Day

In 1962, after eight crowded years in a 74-year-old house, Rockville city government was finally moving into a new, $250,000 city hall building, bringing its 130 employees under one roof for the first time, according to the Jan. 15, 1962, edition of “The Evening Star” — even though the new office space wasn’t quite complete. The now-vacant old house, which had been built in 1888 by Judge Edward Peter as a wedding present for his daughter, was due to be demolished as a fire hazard.