Old Wishek City Hall

Wishek, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Old Wishek City Hall was a one-story civic building in Wishek, North Dakota, constructed in 1916 by architect Frederick W. Keith in the Mission Revival style. Serving multiple functions as a library, city hall (Rathaus), and fire station, it exemplified the multipurpose public buildings common to early twentieth-century prairie towns. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the structure became the subject of preservation controversy when the Wishek City Council offered it to the Wishek Heritage Society for restoration in 2010, only to withdraw the offer, deeming restoration infeasible. The subsequent legal dispute between the Historical Society and the city remained unresolved before the building was demolished around 2011.