Electric Construction Co. Building
building in United States of America
The Electric Construction Co. Building is or was a property in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It was removed from the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
It was built or has other significance in 1908. The listing described Early Commercial, Vernacular, and other architecture. The listing was for an area of less than one acre with just one contributing building.
The property was covered in a 1981 study of Downtown Grand Forks historical resources.
Its listing status is "RN", which means removed from National Register.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Electric Construction Co. Building” is building in United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Electric, Construction and Building, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “building in United States of America” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5357348. Authority coordinates are 47.924, -97.031. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 1908 and 1981.
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This entry incorporates text from “Electric Construction Co. Building” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.