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Sargent County Courthouse

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Built
  
1910

Opened
  
1910

Architecture firm
  
Buechner & Orth

NRHP Reference #
  
80002927

Architectural style
  
Beaux-Arts architecture

Added to NRHP
  
25 November 1980

Sargent County Courthouse

Location
  
355 Main St S, Forman, North Dakota

MPS
  
Buechner and Orth Courthouses in North Dakota TR

Similar
  
Grand Forks County C, Mountrail County Courthouse, Richland County Courthouse, Divide County Courthouse, Wilkin County Courthouse

The Sargent County Courthouse in Forman, North Dakota was built in 1910. The courthouse of Sargent County, it was designed by architects Buechner & Orth in Beaux Arts style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

It has been described as an "economy version" of the Foster County Courthouse and Pierce County Courthouses (other North Dakota courthouses designed by Buechner & Orth). Its front facade has a center pavilion that is "virtually identical" to that of the Foster County Courthouse, which small variations.

The interior of the building includes a skylight of geometric stained glass, and pink terrazzo and pink marble floors on the first floor. The interior may have had murals that have been lost, but has not been changed in terms of its spaces, besides addition of a dropped ceiling of acoustical tile in the courtroom. In particular its rotunda interior is simpler than those of other Buechner & Orth courthouses in North Dakota.

References

Sargent County Courthouse Wikipedia