- City:
- McClusky, ND
- Site Type:
- Courthouses (State & Local), Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1940
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Unusually, the Work Projects Administration (WPA) was involved with the construction of the gorgeous Art Deco courthouse for Sheridan County in McClusky, North Dakota. Approved in 1938, the ~$88,000 building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which reported that the building was “the only state WPA project constructed totally of monolithic concrete.”
Source notes
NRHP nomination form: https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/e5118d54-6c3c-45d8-b3cb-c47c1608039f/ (accessed Mar. 2025)
"Sheridan's New Courthouse," The Bismarck Tribune, Sept 21, 1940 (page 3): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/55716747/
"Sheridan Courthouse Among State's Finest," The Bismarck Tribune, Sept 24, 1940 (page 3): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/55716963/
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 28, 2025.
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