Point 20: Ellensburg City Hall, 420 N Pearl Street, 1930

This building is on the site of an 1888 bank building. For a time Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), the Chicago lawyer best remembered as the defense attorney in the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial,” had business interests in Ellensburg and owned that bank. In 1930 the structure was demolished and this building was constructed in the then-popular Art Moderne style as the National Bank of Ellensburg. Banking was bad business during the Great Depression, and the National Bank of Ellensburg failed within seven years. The City of Ellensburg purchased the building in 1937 and until 2004 used it as City Hall.

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