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Mequon Town Hall and Fire Station Complex is an
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
building complex in
Mequon, Wisconsin Mequon () is the largest city in Ozaukee County, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, and the third-largest city in Wisconsin by land area. Located on Lake Michigan's western shore with significant commercial developments along Interstate 43, the comm ...
, United States, that was built in 1937 as a
Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...
project. It 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 2000. Built as a
town hall In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses ...
in 1937, the building functioned as the city hall when Mequon incorporated in 1957. The fire department moved in the 1980s to the nearby Mequon Safety Building on at the intersection of Mequon Road and Buntrock Avenue. An additional fire station was also built on Port Washington Road, north of Mequon Road.http://mequon.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=


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Art Deco architecture in Wisconsin Buildings and structures in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin Fire stations completed in 1937 Government buildings completed in 1937 National Register of Historic Places in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin Works Progress Administration in Wisconsin 1937 establishments in Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-NRHP-stub