The Sheridan County Courthouse in

McClusky, North Dakota McClusky is a city in Sheridan County, North Dakota, United States. It is the county seat of Sheridan County. The population was 322 at the 2020 census. McClusky was founded in 1905. It is the closest town to the geographical center of North D ...

, United States, was designed in the

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 ...

style by architect

Ira Rush Ira L. Rush (1890-1949) was an American architect in practice in Minot, North Dakota from 1915 until his death in 1949. Life and career Ira Leon Rush was born June 14, 1890 in Bushnell, Illinois to John T. Rush and Ida Mae (Aten) Rush. He was ...

. It was built in 1938 and was listed on the

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in 1985. It is a four-story steel-reinforced concrete building. It was argued to be significant for "providing a stabilizing influence upon political activities on the local and county levels" as the investment in a substantial building would reduce or eliminate rivalry for towns to seize the county seat. (excerpt from longer document) and It was one of numerous North Dakota courthouses studied in 1985. (the longer document)

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Art Deco architecture in North Dakota County courthouses in North Dakota Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota Government buildings completed in 1938 1938 establishments in North Dakota National Register of Historic Places in Sheridan County, North Dakota {{NorthDakota-NRHP-stub