Pend Oreille County Courthouse Newport, Washington
National Register of Historic Places Data
Pend Oreille County Courthouse has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13000997
- Date Listed
- December 24, 2013
- Name
- Pend Oreille County Courthouse
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 625 W. 4th St.
- City/Town
- Newport
- County
- Pend Oreille
- State
- Washington
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE; POLITICS/GOVERNMENT
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Pend Oreille County Courthouse in Newport, WA is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under Criterion A for its direct associations with politics and government, and the development of the city of Newport and Pend Oreille County. The courthouse is also eligible under Criterion C as a locally significant example of monumental public architecture from the Classical Revival period, and an outstanding example of the work of regionally notable architect George Williams and the Williams & Williams partnership. The period of significance begins in 1915, the year the courthouse was completed, and ends in 1940, the year the jail building was added to the site.
