- City:
- Libby, MT
- Site Type:
- City and Town Halls, Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration built the Libby City Hall in the mid-1930s. Today the two-story brick building serves as the Police Department.
The following excerpt is from “ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT PROPOSED PLAN OF MINING AND RECLAMATION TROY PROJECT – ASARCO INC.” at Archive.org, page 285. It was written in 1978:
“Libby City Police Department – The Libby City Police Department and jail are located in the Libby City Hall on Mineral Avenue. The Libby City Hall was built around 1930 as a WPA project and is of brick construction. The facility contains two cell areas. […]”
Source notes
Draft environmental impact statement, proposed plan of mining and reclamation, Troy Project--ASARCO, Lincoln County, Montana, accessed March 21, 2018.
Montana Historic Landscape: (https://montanahistoriclandscape.com/tag/libby-montana/), accessed March 21, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Douglass Halvorsen on March 21, 2018.
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