Lynden City Hall  | Whatcom County |  | Lynden |  |
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Address 323 Front St Lynden, WA 98264 (360) 354-4270 |
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Head down Front Street toward the museum and City Hall is just a few doors before that.
Description:
On the first floor of Lynden City Hall, under a wall clock and next to a radiator, are two wooden chairs sitting side by side across from the County Clerk's office. If you sit in one of those chairs for a few minutes, City Hall will serve as a reminder of school days, lunch box days, recess and locker days. The staircase is wide. And on the landing there are two tall windows that begin high enough up for a child, a smaller adult even, to need to stand on their tiptoes just to touch the sill.
Just the same, City Hall is an intriguing building. From the street it looks like an odd, but somehow very smooth, combination of Mayberry and a hacienda. On the main floor, past the County Clerk's office, is the Mayor's office. And something about the big wooden door, the textured glass next to it, MAYOR'S OFFICE and a large seal painted on the glass . . . something about that frame is so endearing. And if you climb the stairs to the court room and peer inside, you'll see on the wall directly across from the door, beyond and above the folding tables and the leatherette chairs, a grinning eight by ten of Bill Clinton. It's as if someone painstakingly made an effort at both patriotism and decor in one wall hanging. Or perhaps the idea was that justice must, justice would prevail if only the President himself was smiling down. Either way you find yourself smiling at the warm naivete that makes the cynicism and sourness of the law, of politics, of bureaucracy bearable.
The basement houses no offices, only the restrooms, storage and perhaps cleaning supplies. But there is, thankfully, a bathroom on the main floor. It is clean and sweet smelling, handicap accessible and within earshot of the comforting sounds of doors opening and closing, phones ringing, people walking, talking.
If you sit in a wooden chair underneath the wall clock, go upstairs and look at the grinning Bill, you will find that there's more to City Hall than meets the eye.
Written By: Holly Gray
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