- City:
- Lisbon, ND
- Site Type:
- Courthouses (State & Local), Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The stately Ransom County Courthouse in Lisbon, North Dakota was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project (though it is sometimes mis-attributed to the WPA). The PWA supplied a $49,090 grant for the project, whose total cost was $109,220. Primary construction occurred between Dec. 1937 and Nov. 1938.
This “project, along with a construction boom helped lift the county out of depression.”
PWA Docket No. N.D. 1050-R
Source notes
Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 151.
https://www.history.nd.gov/hp/courthouses.html (accessed Jul. 2022)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 18, 2022.
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