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Lincoln County's first "permanent" Courthouse occupied this building, a three-story, gable-roofed building designed and erected by local buillding contractor, Chris P. Nygard. The building, set on high brick foundations, featured simple, round-arched Romanesque windows and multiple belt courses. An elaborate hipped and gabled dormer illuminating third-floor rooms, may have been added later. Nygard was paid approximately $10,000 for his work; following an 1895 fire that devastated the local economy, the county seat switched from Sprague, WA, to a rival town, Davenport, WA, in 1897. Following its decommisioning as courthouse, the building was sold for $300 to R.K. McPherson, who opened a Methodist college in it. Following its closure, the local Catholic diocese purchased it, and operated it as a school, Saint Joseph's Academy, until 1965. It was torn down a year later.

Demolished;

PCAD id: 17979