Idle for just over a decade, the former post office at West Michigan Avenue and South Division Street received new life in March 1979 as the Hall of Justice — Calhoun County's courthouse. The transformation was cause for celebration — an Enquirer and News editorial on Feb. 14, 1979, declared that the county "can be proud of its new facility" — but it was not without controversy. The $1.85 million price tag gave some pause, and then there was the name. Four years earlier, City Commissioner Donald Sherrod proposed the building be named after Sojourner Truth, an idea that was warmly received in Battle Creek at the time but had less currency among those empowered to decide the issue. In a compromise, plaques inside the building honored Truth as well as three Michigan Supreme Court Justices. The hall would serve as a courthouse until July 1994, when the new Justice Complex opened at 161 E. Michigan Ave.