Old City Hall
Rising in monumental Richardsonian Romanesque stone, Brunswick's Old City Hall was designed by Alfred S. Eichberg and opened in 1890 as the seat of the coastal city's government and courts. That same spring, on April 12, 1890, Officer Robert L. Massey laid a hand on a man who refused to pay a two-dollar fine, and the man drew a pistol and shot him in the side and then the back; Massey died the next day. Since then, staff and visitors have reported seeing him fairly regularly inside the building, from fleeting glances to full-bodied encounters, alongside disembodied footsteps and doors that open and close on their own. Locals say the activity intensified after the 2000 restoration, and the case drew Syfy's Ghost Hunters team, who claimed an hour-long flashlight "conversation" with an unseen presence in the old courtroom. The former courtroom is now an event space, but the officer who fell there in 1890 seems never to have left his post.
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