Grand Forks City Hall is a building in

Grand Forks, North Dakota Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the state of North Dakota (after Fargo and Bismarck) and the county seat of Grand Forks County. According to the 2020 census, the city's population was 59,166. Grand Forks, along with its twin city o ...

that was listed on the

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in 1982. It was built in 1911. and It was designed by Grand Forks architect John W. Ross and was built by Northern Construction & Engineering. In a 1981 survey of Downtown Grand Forks historical resources, it was stated this building "is pure Beaux Arts. Rather small in scale and only two storys over a raised basement, the City Hall is faced with

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and was similar in mass, style, and materials to the recently razed Carnegie Library which was located nearby." The listing was for an area of less than one acre with just the one building.

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* City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota Government buildings completed in 1911 Beaux-Arts architecture in North Dakota Historic American Buildings Survey in North Dakota 1911 establishments in North Dakota National Register of Historic Places in Grand Forks, North Dakota {{NorthDakota-NRHP-stub