North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie StateFederal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota
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North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State
Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota
North Dakota; North Dakota -- Guidebooks
13. WORLD WAR MEMORIAL BUILDING, 215 6th St., which serves as a
community center, is a three-story structure of modern design, built of
white Hebron (N. Dak.) brick and concrete with limestone trim. It was
designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan of Minneapolis in 1930.
14. BANK OF NORTH DAKOTA (_open weekdays 8:30-4:30_), 700 Main St.,
was created by a special referendum election of June 26, 1919, passing
a law providing that "For the purpose of encouraging and promoting
agriculture, commerce and industry, the State of North Dakota shall
engage in the business of banking, and for that purpose shall and
does establish a system of banking, owned, controlled and operated by
it, under the name of the Bank of North Dakota." It is managed and
controlled by the State Industrial Commission. State funds, and funds
of State institutions are deposited here. The bank was one of the
important features in the program of the Nonpartisan League at the time
of its organization, being designed to carry out the fourth plank of
the league platform, the establishment of rural credit banks operated
at cost. The red brick bank building was originally an automobile
warehouse.
STATE REGULATORY DEPARTMENT LABORATORY (_open_), is on the fourth floor
of the Bank of North Dakota Building. North Dakota was a pioneer State
in pure food legislation. A law passed in 1895 paved the way for
the pure food and fertilizer laws of 1903. State inspectors, active
at all times throughout the State, send samples for analysis to this
laboratory, where trained chemists make the tests. Constant inspection
of food and dairy products, feeds, fertilizers, water, oils, and paints
is maintained.
15. ST. MARY'S CEMETERY, NE. edge of the city, contains the graves of
many of the pioneers who played an important part in the development of
the city and State. Among those buried here are Alexander McKenzie and
his son, Alexander, Jr.; and Gen. E. A. Williams, first representative
from Burleigh County to the Territorial Assembly, and his wife.
POINTS OF INTEREST IN ENVIRONS
State Penitentiary, =2 m.=, Fort Lincoln, =4.5 m.=, Sibley Island,
=7 m.=, Liberty Memorial Bridge, =1.5 m.= (_see Tour 8_). Fort
Abraham Lincoln State Park, =9.5 m.= (_see_ FORT ABRAHAM LINCOLN
STATE PARK). Pioneer Park, =2 m.= (_see Side Tour 3B_).
FARGO
=Railroad Stations:= Northern Pacific, Bdwy. at Front St.; Great
Northern, Bdwy. at 5th Ave. N.; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
(Milwaukee), 1101 2nd Ave. N.
=Bus Stations:= Union Station, 502 N. P. Ave., for Northland
Greyhound, Checker, Jack Rabbit, and Triangle Lines; Cole Hotel,
407-1/2 N. P. Ave., for Liederbach Line.
=Airport:= Hector Field, NW. outskirts of city, 1/2 m. W. of US
81, Northwest Airlines, taxi fare 50c, time 10 min.; day and night
service, public hangars.
=Taxis:= 25c anywhere in city, 10c for each additional passenger.
=City Bus Line:= Intra-city, fare 10c.
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