Grand Forks County Courthouse is a Beaux Arts style 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

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

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 during 1913–1914. It was designed by Minnesota architects

Buechner & Orth Buechner & Orth was a St. Paul, Minnesota-based architectural firm that designed buildings in Minnesota and surrounding states, including 13 courthouses in North Dakota. It was the subject of a 1979 historic resources study. (main body of documen ...

. The courthouse is identified as the largest and most expensive of 13 county courthouses in North Dakota designed by Buechner and Orth during 1905–1919. (main body of document, not including selected pages) Considerable additional detail on the building is provided in its NRHP nomination document. (pages 7.8 and 7.9 of TR study) and The NRHP listing was for just the one

contributing building In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

, with no specific property area identified.

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Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota County courthouses in North Dakota Government buildings completed in 1914 Beaux-Arts architecture in North Dakota Neoclassical architecture in North Dakota National Register of Historic Places in Grand Forks, North Dakota 1914 establishments in North Dakota {{NorthDakota-NRHP-stub