From Clarence E. Costales, "New Canaan Town Hall," written July 10, 1947, appearing in "Landmarks of New Canaan," The New Canaan Historical Society, 1951, p 92-95 (Xerox copy sent to H. DeVoe by Ronald Marcus, Stamford Historical Society, 7 May 2007):
The building was carried through to completion and at a Town Hall Meeting held on October 3, 1910, the committee made the following report: "Gentlemen, Your Committee known as the Town Hall Committee appointed at a Special Town Meeting held April 4, 1908, beg leave to report as follows: Such committee immediately held a meeting and organized, and it was voted and decided to invite several different architects to visit New Canaan and look over our new town hall site, with a view for them to present annoynamous [sic.] designs for plans, we supplying them with blue prints of our lot together with our ideas for a new building. We received seventeen (17) sets of plans from architects from New York City to Boston, Mass., including all our local Architects who desired to compete. These plans as above stated were received annoynamous [sic.] and the committee and Selectmen together with Mr. H. Hobart Weeks who very kindly and efficiently acted as expert to the Committee, met several evenings and very carefully examined the several sets of plans and with much deliberation and care, the plan of Mr. Edgar A. Josselyn of New York was considered to be the best one of the collection, and were [sic.] therefore accepted on a 5 per cent basis. . .
"Your committee in offering this report takes great pleasure in highly commending the services of Mr. Josselyn as Architect and Mr. [C. E.] Hubbell as Builder and feel that the New Town Hall will be a lasting monument to New Canaan for a great many years to come and also we wish to offer a unanimous vote of thanks to Mr. Hobart Weeks, who assisted the committee in selecting our plans, as by his wise judgement [sic.] and council we feel that the best set presented were [sic.] adopted."