Grand Forks County Courthouse Explained

Grand Forks County Courthouse
Location:S. 5th St., Grand Forks, North Dakota
Coordinates:47.9228°N -97.0294°W
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Marker:building
Mapframe-Zoom:12
Mapframe-Caption:Interactive map showing the location of Grand Forks County Courthouse
Built:1913–1914
Architect:Buechner & Orth
Architecture:Beaux Arts
Added:November 25, 1980
Refnum:80002913

Grand Forks County Courthouse is a Beaux Arts style building in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is a "richly decorated white limestone structure in a modified Classical Revival style, topped with a massive cast iron dome."

It was built between 1913 and 1914 and designed by Buechner & Orth, a Minnesotan architecture firm. The courthouse is identified as the largest and most expensive of thirteen B&O-designed county courthouses in North Dakota built from 1905 until 1919.[1]

Considerable additional detail on the building is provided in its NRHP nomination document.[2] The NRHP listing was for just the one contributing building, with no specific property area identified.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=64000471}} National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Buechner and Orth Courthouses in North Dakota TR ]. Kurt P. Schweigert . August 1, 1980 . National Park Service. (main body of document, not including selected pages)
  2. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=80002913}} NRHP Inventory-Nomination: Grand Forks County Courthouse ]. Kurt P. Schweigert . August 1, 1980 . National Park Service. (pages 7.8 and 7.9 of TR study) and