Grand Forks City Hall

404 N. 2nd Ave., Grand Forks, North Dakota

Photo

Main and side elevations 4x5 enlargement from 21/4x21/4 negative

Photo taken for the Historic American Buildings Survey

Map

Coordinates:
+47.92577, -97.03403
47°55'33" N, 97°02'02" W

Quadrangle map:
Grand Forks

Street View

Description

The City Hall is one of four surviving Classical Revival buildings constructed in Grand Forks, the County seat of Grand Forks County, between 1900-1920. In style and material, the City Hall conforms to Central High School (1917) directly across Second Avenue North which faces Fourth Street, and to the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (Federal Building) across from Central High School facing Fourth Street North, which was designed by James Knox Taylor in 1906. These three buildings represent the "City Beautiful" movement in architecture and form a visual focus to the public area of the Central Business District reflecting the City's regional importance to a vast agricultural hinterland in the Red River Valley at the turn of the century. -- Historic American Buildings Survey

National Register information

Status: Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on October 26, 1982
Reference number: 82001325
Architectural style: Late 19th and 20th Century Revival: Beaux Arts
Area of significance: Architecture
Levels of significance: Local; State
Evaluation criteria: C - Design/Construction
Property type: Building
Historic function: City hall
Current function: City hall
Period of significance: 1900-1924
Significant year: 1911

Update Log

May 17, 2012: Imported photo from HABS/HAER
August 14, 2010: New Street View added by Bill Eichelberger

Sources

Bill Eichelberger - wallyum [at] hotmail [dot] com
Wikipedia
HABS ND-21 - Grand Forks City Hall
National Register database - Reference number 82001325 (Search for documents)