- City:
- Colby, KS
- Site Type:
- City and Town Halls, Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Designers:
- Garden City KS, Suit and Blanchard
- Contractor:
- Unknown
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Colby City Hall in Colby KS in 1935-1936. The limestone building has always served as the City Hall for Colby, KS. The library was housed in the same structure for a time as well, and the Fire Department had an annex attached to this building. The building continues to serve as an office building for city offices.
Source notes
Thomas County Archives, Thomas County Historical Society.
Kansas Historical Society (https://www.kshs.org/natreg/natreg_listings/search/county:TH), accessed March 2020.
National Register of Historic Places Nomination, 2003 (https://www.kshs.org/resource/national_register/nominationsNRDB/Thomas_ColbyCityHallNR.pdf), accessed March 2020.
Kansas Historical Society (https://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=193-1060-00105), accessed March 2020.
Site originally submitted by Thomas County Historical Society on March 20, 2020.
Additional contributions by Barbara Pendleton.
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