Mequon Town Hall and Fire Station Complex

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Mequon Town Hall and Fire Station Complex
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Location11333 N. Cedarburg Rd., Mequon, Wisconsin
Coordinates 43°13′25″N87°59′4″W / 43.22361°N 87.98444°W / 43.22361; -87.98444
Built1937
ArchitectSatre & Senescall; Schneider & Schaefer
Architectural styleArt Deco
NRHP reference No. 00000779 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 18, 2000

Mequon Town Hall and Fire Station Complex is an Art Deco building complex in Mequon, Wisconsin, United States, that was built in 1937 as a Works Progress Administration project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1] [2] [3]

Built as a town hall in 1937, the building functioned as the city hall when Mequon incorporated in 1957. [4] The fire department moved in the 1980s to the nearby Mequon Safety Building on at the intersection of Mequon Road and Buntrock Avenue. An additional fire station was also built on Port Washington Road, north of Mequon Road. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "Mequon Town Hall and Fire Station Complex". Wisconsin Historical Society. January 2012. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  3. Cartwright, Carol Lohry (September 15, 1999). "Mequon Town Hall and Fire Station Complex". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  4. Wisconsin Department of State, Mequon Certificate of Incorporation, May 24, 1957. http://sos.nmtvault.com/pdf/THEOSOS_043/images/00021146.pdf
  5. http://mequon.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={332C58CF-73AF-482F-B1ED-10FE0ECD54DC} [ bare URL ]