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Collection Summary
Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0017
Item: 00651
Title: Barnes County Courthouse, Valley City (N.D.)
Date: 1936-1942
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col.75/651, "5" in a circle, and "Valley City Mr. Karl Olson-McFarland Studio".
Summary: A series of wide sets of stairs leads to the entrance. The courthouse, built in 1925 as a replacement for an earlier burned structure, was designed by the Minneapolis, Minnesota firm of Toltz, King, and Day, Inc. The style is a mixture of Neo-classical and Colonial, popular in the 1920s. The front facade is symmetrical with a central portico having four tall, free-standing Doric columns. Three stories tall, the walls faced with cut Indiana limestone. The building's cornice is dentilled and the pediment is balustraded. In the pediment this phrase is chiseled: Built By the People of Barnes County To Perpetuate Civic Order and Justice
Red ID: PH_I_145018 Image ID: 106053 Image Notes: 00075-00651

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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