Mountain Grove City Hall
Mountain Grove City Hall, also known as Mountain Grove City Hall and Jail, is a historic city hall located at Mountain Grove, Wright County, Missouri. It was built in 1937–1938, and is a two-story, flat-roofed building in the Works Progress Administration (WPA)'s version of Modern style, WPA Moderne. The building is clad in unfinished native field stone with beaded mortar joints, a technique commonly referred to as "Ozark rock" or "giraffe rock" construction. It was funded by the WPA and constructed with local labor.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
References
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 2/27/12 through 3/02/12. National Park Service. 2012-03-09.
- ^ Mary Helen Catlett Allen (August 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Mountain Grove City Hall" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-03-01. (includes 16 photographs from 2010)
