Grand Forks City Hall, 404 Second Avenue North, Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, ND

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Grand Forks City Hall, 404 Second Avenue North, Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, ND

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Summary

Significance: 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.
Survey number: HABS ND-21
Building/structure dates: 1911 Initial Construction

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1911 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Ross, John W
Northern Construction & Engineering Company
Nikle, Bruce, photographer
Roberts, Norene A, historian
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Location

North Grand Forks47.92568, -97.03407
Google Map of 47.9256785, -97.0340665
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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