Dickinson County Courthouse

Dickinson County Courthouse
General information
Type	Courthouse
Architectural style	Post-modern
Address	1802 Hill Ave.
Town or city	Spirit Lake, Iowa
Country	United States
Coordinates	43°25′20″N 95°06′12″W / 43.422086°N 95.103305°W / 43.422086; -95.103305
Construction started	August 2004
Inaugurated	June, 2009
Technical details
Floor count	Two
Design and construction
Architecture firm	RDG Planning and Design
Dickinson County Courthouse (Former)
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The former Dickinson County Courthouse in 2006
NRHP Reference #	81000235
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	July 2, 1981<ref name=="nris">{{NRISref|2010a}}</ref>
Removed from NRHP	September 13, 2006

The Dickinson County Courthouse is located at 1802 Hill Avenue in Spirit Lake, Iowa. It replaced an earlier structure completed in 1891.^[1] Voters authorized spending for the current facility in 2003 after three failed attempts and it was dedicated in June 2009. The facility is two-stories, faced with red brick and limestone accents and features large windows on its curved front façade. Adjacent is a tower at the same location of the tower of the former courthouse and visually similar. It houses information on county history, attractions and veterans named on the nearby memorial.^[2]

The former courthouse, the county's third, opened in 1891 at a cost of $15,000 to replace an earlier facility that had become unusable. T. D. Allen designed the structure in a Romanesque Revival style featuring a square tower with hip roof on one corner. It was expanded in 1957, 1976 and 1978 to accommodate the growing county government.^[3] This structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was razed in 2006.^[4]

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