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Pepin
County Seat – Durand
Current Courthouse – 1950
Unlike any other Wisconsin courthouse, this building, known
as the Pepin County Government Center, was constructed in
the early 1950s as a hospital. It was designed by architect
Joseph Durran and built by Viking Construction of
Minneapolis. It was sold to the City of Durand in 1971 and
in 1972, Pepin County purchased a 30 percent interest in the
property. The hospital continued to operate until the early
1980s. In 1983, the City of Durand deeded interests in the
former hospital to the county for the new government center
which opened in 1984. In the late 1990s a significant
addition expanded the jail and law enforcement areas. |
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